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Subject:Re: Has anyone tried Ekiga for VOIP? From:Rick Stone <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com> To:Kathleen MacDowell <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com> Date:Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:40:56 -0500
Hi there
Can you please expound on what you mean about the "legal issues" with Skype?
What about the issues is making you feel you need to suddenly find
something different? Is Skype about to explode or something?
Cheers... Rick :)
Kathleen MacDowell wrote:
> I currently use Skype for my long distance. On an article about legal issues
> with the code Skype is based on, someone suggested Ekiga
>
>http://www.ekiga.org/
>
> an open source VOIP solution formerly known as GnomeMeeting.
>
> I'm sure it isn't quite as developed as Skype as it's non-commercial, but
> thought it worth checking out.
>
> Supposed to have Windows versions as well as Unix/Linux, etc.
>
> Thanks for any info
>
> Kathleen
>
>
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