[LINK] There goes the neighbourhood...

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 23:59 +0930, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
> On 10/05/11 21:55, Kim Holburn wrote:
> >> Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all cash deal.
>
> ok folks, for those of us who might now take the opportunity to 
> investigate options what are our alternatives?  Google talk? others?

Well, with the advent of IPv6 and the restoration of end-to-end
transparency in the global Internet, how about SIP?

Skype's only real claim to fame was the mechanism they used to punch
through NAT; the rest of it is relatively straightforward (though of
course they patented a few codecs just to be annoying).

Regards, K.

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