[Asterisk-Dev] A crazy idea... Skype channel in Asterisk

[Steve Kann]

steve at daviesfam.org wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Thomas Horsten wrote:
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>>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 steve at daviesfam.org wrote:
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>>>You are contravening the Skype terms and conditions of use by making any
>>>attempt to reverse engineer.  Its as closed as closed can be.
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>>Reverse engineering is fair use. At the very least, it is extremely hard
>>to win a lawsuit against someone for merely reverse engineering a
>>protocol.
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>So it'll go to court, I presume.  The terms and conditions you agreed to 
>when you installed Skype software included your agreement to those terms I 
>posted, amongst others.
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>Why bother with Skype when Digium and all the people on this list are
>working to create real open protocols like IAX, and to support real open
>protocols like SIP?  Lets rather make an open soft client that's better
>than Skype.
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>Adam - how can we persuade you to bring a community into developing 
>Firefly?
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You do realize that there is an open, community driven IAX client out 
there, don't you?  With about 5 different GUIs?

I already tried twisting Adam's arm a bit at astricon; Help make 
iaxclient better, and Adam will join us :)

-SteveK

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