On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > -my understanding is that skype is three things: > -a very good client > -a very good proprietary protocol (as in, better than the standard one)
I'm not convinced of that. In fact, I would submit that a "good enough" standard protocol is far better than a "better" proprietary protocol. Maybe if the "better" proprietary protocol is literally more than one order of magnitude "better", then maybe it would be time to create a new standard protocol that does many of the same things. > -they pool network connections to get more bandwidth Again, I'm not convinced that this is a "good thing". At least, for many clients/sites I think that this would definitely be a "bad thing". > I don't know of any standard protocol which steals^H^H^H^H^H^H use your > neighbour's bandwidth to improve your connection, so unless facetime does > something tricky like this, or also use a proprietary protocol (in addition > to > the standard ones) that's even better than skype's, I wonder how they can be > that much better. Again, I think I disagree with your definition of "better". -- Brad Knowles <b...@shub-internet.org> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
