[asterisk-users] skype for asterisk usage in the future

[d tbsky]

hi:
   thanks for all the information. I don't use skype and I ban skype
at our network. but there are some people who use skype and want us to
use skype to contact them. SFA is my saver because our users can use
their phone to talk with skype users and no need to install any skype
software.
   I hope skype die asap. but if it is alive, I must find someway to
satisfy these skype customers...

2011/7/12 A J Stiles <asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk>:
> On Tuesday 12 Jul 2011, d tbsky wrote:
>> hi:
>>    I am a SFA (skype for asterisk) user. I had ask Digium questions
>> about SFA usage in the future. but they seem too busy to reply. so I
>> tried at this list. I hope there are SFA users or Digium people can
>> solve my confusion.
>
> Poor you!
>
> To my mind, Skype with its opaque, proprietary protocols is the exact opposite
> of what telecommunications is supposed to be about.
>
> I can make a call, or send an SMS, from my HTC on Vodafone to my friend's
> Samsung on Tesco without thinking twice about it, and that's the way we all
> expect it to be.  But if it hadn't been for governments enforcing standards,
> the mobile networks could well have ended up fragmentated; with different
> handset manufacturers and different network operators all using competing,
> proprietary standards to lock one another out and their customers in.
>
>>   2. I saw SFA will not be supported after two years. my question is:
>> although it is not supported, can I still use it? I want to buy more
>> licenses now if I can still use it after two years even without official
>> support.
>
> That depends entirely on whether Skype update their protocols and block out
> the old ones.  Two years is easily long enough for them to do that;
> especially given the way Skype works.  It could even do stealth upgrades in
> the background.
>
> Look at it this way:  You've got two years to migrate away from Skype and
> start using something else -- and this time around, for the love of all
> that's sane and wholesome, be sure to choose something that supports open
> standards, so you can never get shafted the same way again.
>
> If someone manages successfully to reverse-engineer Skype during that time,
> you *might* have a little longer; but I wouldn't bet the family farm on that.
>
>
> --
> AJS
>
> Answers come *after* questions.
>
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