Archive for the tag 'voip'

Nov 02 2009

Skype open source. Not!

Published by Stef under business, eng

Skype open source? Reading the full announcement on Skype blog:
[...]Having an open source UI will help us [...]
So, it’s not Skype being open sourced, but it’s only the UI. The full sentence should be:
Having an open source UI will help us further our [Skype's] plans to monopolize the Voice Over IP market with a proprietary [...]

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Feb 12 2008

Wengo stopped developing wengophone

Published by Stef under eng

Some disappointing news today: Wengo stopped developing Wengophone, the VoIP SIP and XMPP/Jabber multiplatform client.’ ’  They announced it in the developer’s mailing list.
Update: the’ development of OpenWengo software has been taken over’ by an experienced Wengo programmer.
I wonder why Google isn’t contributing its gtalk code to free software projects like Kopete, Gaim or Adium: they use an [...]

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