[Asterisk-Users] FW: pda skype

[Jeremy Hall]

I don't have a PocketPC PDA, mine is Palm.  But regardless, I don't see
what all the "Hype" is with "Skype."  It is a closed protocol and highly
platform-restricted product.  Sure the concept of a peer-to-peer phone
network is interesting, but if not everyone can connect to it, what is
the point?  If they want to keep certain features under their control so
that they can eventually charge for it, then by all means do so.  But if
they would release the basic protocol specs, so that others can access
the network in general, they would see many more users.

I for one am not going to run yet another soft phone and/or IM client on
my system just to connect to yet another phone network.  A friend of
mine and I tried it when it first came out, and it worked about as well
as FWD, or IAXTel, or Firefly, or... You get the point.  Now if I could
attach my Asterisk server to it and be able to make and receive simple
voice calls with other users, that would be great.  I don't need hotlist
functionality, if I dial their number and they aren't on, I get a busy
reorder signal.  No big deal.

They definitely have a good idea, in the fact that it works, doesn't
have too many problems with firewalls, and is not server reliant.  But
keeping it closed is preventing a lot of people from joining them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason A. Pattie [mailto:pattieja at pcxperience.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:36 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FW: pda skype

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Dean Collins wrote:
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Hmm.  I don't have a 400MHz PDA running PocketPC.  I only have a 206MHz
PDA (running Familiar Linux and GPE).

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Jason A. Pattie
pattieja at xperienceinc.com
Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com)
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