Re: [tlug] Skype Withdrawal: OSS VOIP Opportunity

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

jep200404 wrote:
> CL wrote: 
>
> > Am I the only one going through Skype Withdrawal[?] 
>
> This is an opportunity. What can OSS VOIP do better than Skype? 

Agreed.  I started to read up on how to implement that package when I 
realized Skype wasn't going to be available for more than the 12~24 hour 
estimate the company provided.  Still have a way to go, but I think that 
it may be installed as a backup, if not an alternative means of 
contacting people when Skype isn't available.

However, I note that a lot of what I have learned about Linux recently 
has been aimed at firefighting instead of improving my own particular 
desktop to my needs.  I look forward to more of the latter as time goes 
on.  As a newbie, though, it is good practice ... or, as a long-ago 
drill instructor used to say "Panic and fear; they build strong 
character twelve ways."

> Obviously, one possibility is that OSS might be less 
> vulnerable to a single point of failure than Skype. 

Skype failed due to programmer error (whether singular or multiple 
instances of either, I don't know) ... or, so they claim.  As I was 
reading, I was still thinking that OSS has the same potential 
vulnerability in that regard.

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CL