Barrapunto

Como dice Damien Sandras en la página de GnomeMeeting:

The main problem is not that the program is not Open Source, the problem is that Skype is locking users into a proprietary protocol. Would you imagine the Internet with a proprietary equivalent to the HTTP protocol that only a given client could browse? That's what happens with Skype. Skype also has a great marketing force, some people even think that Skype has a superior audio quality. How could Skype have a superior quality when it is using the same codec (iLBC) than software like GnomeMeeting while introducing more latency by making calls go through a 3rd party? The only real advantage of Skype is that it is easily going through any type of NAT, using a 3rd user to proxy the call. But the day when the Linux kernel NAT will natively support H.323 or SIP, Skype will have lost its only advantage... Skype is hype...

Yo creo que la principal ventaja es la comodidad de poder hacer llamadas ordenador-ordenador y ordenador-telefono, a cualquier parte del mundo, con la misma interfaz. Pero bueno, ya tengo otra herramienta para reducir un poco la factura del movil, que con esto de que te cobren por llamar y porque te llamen, me estan dejando frito :).

But the day when the Linux kernel NAT will natively support H.323 or SIP, Skype will have lost its only advantage... Skype is hype...

Y ¿qué pasa con PF, IPF, IPFW? Nada no pasa nada... el día que linux soporte nativamente H.323 o SIP automáticamente toda la gente migrará sus firewalls a linux para poder usar gnomemeeting y Skype tendrá los días contados (sic).

Aparte ¿por qué debería usar algo mal pensado [pintday.org] desde un principio? Aún me acuerdo de lo bien que funciona(ba) SpeakFreely y era "amigable" con el NAT.