[LINK] There goes the neighbourhood...

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:05 +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> On 11/05/2011, at 8:41 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Skype's only real claim to fame was the mechanism they used to punch
> > through NAT
> 
> From a technical perspective, perhaps. But from a social perspective,
> it achieved critical mass early on and ran with it. 

Er - the *reason* it got popular was that it got around NAT. Had it not
been usable from behind the ubiquitous NAtting home router, it would
have had no chance at all. That is one of the reasons why the completely
free, totally open and standardised other options failed.

Regards, K.

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