[Asterisk-Users] Gizmo: Skype done right?

[Erik Espinoza]

Agreed. IAX2 would have been a much better way to go. Regardless i
don't see how an open source, standards based softphone will compete
with Skype. Skype has a few things going for it:

1) Hype, lots of it. It's no coincidence that that the two rhyme
2) Built in traversal of firewalls - p2p style (have I mentioned I
hate sip + nat)
3) Encryption, Encryption, Encryption

An open source, standards based free implementation does not win over
users. There needs to be more, just ask the Ogg folks how MP3's doing.

Also it's worth noting that both are free, however Skype has a Linux version!

Skype = Win, Mac, Lin x86, PocketPC
Gizmo Beta = Mac, Win (Coming Soon: Linux?)

Erik

On 6/30/05, Matt Fredrickson <creslin at digium.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:31:55PM -0700, Jerry Glomph Black wrote:
> > I've just submitted this as a Slashdot story, too.
> > I have absolutely no connection with any of the principals, I just think they
> > are doing the right thing.   This could have a major impact on the Asterisk
> > community, and VoIP usage in general.
> >
> > Michael Robertson, of mp3.com fame, has been battling for open standards in the
> > IP telephony world, in addition to his better-known Lindows (now Linspire, at
> > http://www.linspire.com) venture to promote Linux on the desktop.  His
> > sipphone.com VoIP operation works great for me, but Michael has been long
> > concerned about the totally closed and proprietary nature of Skype (as well as a
> > lot of the misleading hype surrounding it).
> >
> > Today his crew released "Gizmo" (at "http://www.gizmoproject.com) (a tentative
> > name until a better one is found) which has the main benefits of Skype, PLUS it
> > is layered upon SIP, DUNDI, and the existing sipphone.com infrastructure,
>                   ^^^
> 
> Looks like they already messed up... If they're going to redo all of this anyway,
> they might as well use a protocol like IAX where you don't have NAT problems.
> 
> Matthew Fredrickson
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