[asterisk-biz] Asterisk with Skype

AmberVoIP ambervoip at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 11:09:06 MST 2006


skype was first
yes, in msn messenger we can use pc2phone features, but microsoft never
did campaign for it. 
FWD, gizmo and gtalk came later.
chan_skype i guess will appear in few months, open libraries is
released, so...

andy.

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:53:43 -0500
mogorman <mogorman at digium.com> wrote:

> Im not saying we should ignore skype they have several features, well
> one feature, ease of use that we should strive to have.  But otherwise
> there is nothing in skype we don't have else where and even the ease
> of use is just as easy when you can just give someone a google talk
> client and connect it to asterisk.  I'm not saying we should ignore
> skype i just don't see anything they have given us to work with and
> don't see the point in waiting or trying to build chan_skype at least
> as it is now.
> 
> Mog
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:23 +0100, AmberVoIP wrote:
> > You can look skype forums, for 2004 and 2005th, there was many
> > diwscussions... Skype guys made closed protocol, and i beleive, soon
> > they will provide interconnection from sip or maybe iax2.
> > Anyway, it was made for commerce.
> > 
> > I do not use skype, i just do not want one more additional IM
> > client at computer. Right now all IM clients is under GAIM, gizmo
> > registered at asterisk and working well.
> > 
> > I ignoring skype.
> > 
> > Andy.
> > 
> > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:00:28 -0400
> > Bill Michaelson <bill at cosi.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Ahem.  Like maybe people need to get over Microsoft?
> > > 
> > > I think I understand how you feel, but doesn't ignoring Skype
> > > seem a bit, uh, Ostrich-like?
> > > 
> > > mogorman wrote:
> > > >   Sounds to me like skype needs to get its act together,
> > > > or people need to get over skype.
> > > >   
> > > >   
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