Skype is Evil – Other VOIP Options
Skype has revealed themselves to be evil in the latest spyware fiasco. So what are the other options? Let’s look at the various criteria:
- Softphone for Desktop Win/Mac/Nix
- Softphone for Mobile S60
- DID Provider
Softphone for Desktop
A softphone is a software SIP phone implementation. SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol, basically an open standard for telephony. There are a few options out there, but essentially two categories: proprietary and open source.
Proprietary
- Gizmo5, formerly GizmoProject, formerly PhoneGaim
Open Source
- QuteCom, formerly OpenWengo, has Win/Nix distributions that work, and appears to be one of the most comprehensive, having support for a wide variety of IM clients as well
- Ekiga, formerly GnomeMeeting, has a Nix distribution of their latest 3.0 version
- Kphone is a Unix implementation, latest release is 2007 (as of 2008-10-03)
- Linphone is a Win/Nix implementation
S60 Softphone
- Fring seems to be the only option that I can get working well on the Nokia n82
- Fring is proprietary, not open source
SIP Stacks
For programmers, besides the open source projects mentioned above, the following are interesting SIP stacks for developing your own SIP applications:
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One Response to “Skype is Evil – Other VOIP Options”
Skype is evil because Skype will permanently keep your Skype account no matter what. After the time-wasting hassle of sending e-mail concerns and sending e-mail complaints regarding account deactivation and account cancellation when I don’t need these guys, Skype is evil – because once you sign up, their genetically-engineered artificial toxic will preserve their names and their personal data so they will never decompose and will never corrode as they will linger throughout the servers of soul-less minds. If anything like this, Skype will end up becoming like a landfill full of unused accounts, making it not efficient and not good for the server environment.
So before you sign up at Skype, you better think of a good reason about why they will keep their account names for no reason. Skype is evil.
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