Comments on: Brave New Skyping World Revisited

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:03:11 +0000

Skype kills my laptop, it eats the battery, slows it down and causes it to over heat. Its like the Windows ME debacle all over again.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:58:13 +0000

Here is a link for every one who wants to know the technical details about skype:
http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.pdf

By: Die verwirrende Masche der Mubilfunkverträge - oder - Wie man die Vorteile des Kapitalismus nutzen kann, ohne sich mit den dummen Nachteilen, wie Wettbewerb und so, rumärgern zu müssen. « lena’s blog

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:45:25 +0000

[...] bereits darauf, sie darüber aufzuklären, dass Skype nur eine Variante von Voice over IP und noch nicht mal die beste ist) auch mit diesem Tarif verboten sei. Nach meiner Frage nach Deep Packet Inspection musste ich [...]

By: hugo’s blog » Bye bye Skype, here comes XMPP!

hugo’s blog » Bye bye Skype, here comes XMPP! — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:15 +0000

[...] far, we already had excellent reasons to refuse using Skype. Indeed, this protocol is closed, but most of all it doesn’t allow any interoperability, [...]

By: Björn Schießle (schiessle) 's status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-09 17:18:16 UTC - Identi.ca

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:18:19 +0000

[...] RD @mkesper Still very good reasons why you should not use #skype: http://freedom-blog.net/2009/05/19/brave-new-skyping-world-revisited/ [...]

By: Michael A. Kesper (mkesper) 's status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-09 15:54:18 UTC - Identi.ca

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:54:26 +0000

[...] Still very good reasons why you should not use skype: http://freedom-blog.net/2009/05/19/brave-new-skyping-world-revisited/ [...]

By: Freedom Blog » Blog Archive » Ten Reasons Why You Should Boycott Skype

Freedom Blog » Blog Archive » Ten Reasons Why You Should Boycott Skype — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:30:41 +0000

[...] Update: In response to some criticism in the comments, I wrote the follow-up article Brave New Skyping World Revisited. [...]

By: Sebin Abraham Jacob (sebinaj) 's status on Monday, 05-Oct-09 17:29:10 UTC - Identi.ca

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:29:12 +0000

[...] New Skyping http://freedom-blog.net/2009/05/19/brave-new-skyping-world-revisited/ [...]

By: Ciprian Mustiata

Ciprian Mustiata — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:28:41 +0000

This arguments anti-skype are just silly. I write those lines from OS X and skype works here. But also in real life, I work on a CAD system, opensource but works only on .NET/Windows. Arguing that FOSS bring the best quality is really dependent of real value that you count on.

If you argue of your complete freedom, think that most software have a very patented past, and a lot of things can be property to one degree. Do you use an opensourced CPU? Or an opensource GPU? Is much much easier to get the idea of freedom and where to drop the line. For now I use .NET just because Mono cannot replace in that point the other platforms in my expected project costs. Some may argue: use Qt, use Java, use … but all are just talking and talking. And when is it about to fix a bug, for their FOSS software, no one drops a line more than to comment this or that bug. Based on this, I really don’t believe that the CAD I work on will break the AutoCAD world, or CATIA one. The reason is that in many cases (to not say most of them), freedom is as we get all for free without headaches, but rarely we fight for real value that the free software have. Who can work for a real solution to work the Ekiga on OS X? Who can work to make it work the software we blame today as being with low usability.

Skype is broken as OS X is: is closed source, no more no less.

By: Somebody else

Somebody else — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:44:36 +0000

*Yes, I know some PHP/SQL/other web language interpreters are proprietary, like Microsoft’s Windows Server….