[LINK] Why Skype?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 03:16, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
> And all of that is ignoring the real reason most people use Skype - for the
> completely free Skype-to-Skype calls.

Well, you could download and install the free, open source "Jitsi"
http://jitsi.org/index.php/Main/Download

and get free PC-to-PC calls over SIP

http://www.ipkall.com/
http://www.callcentric.com/

with no monthly fee

(plus text chats using Goggle talk servers via Jabber)...

Before SIP, I remember doing PC-to-PC free voice calls with Net2Phone,
abount 14 years ago. And it still works

http://www.net2phone.com/consumer/commcenter/helppccall.asp
http://supcontent.gateway.com/s/tutorials/Tu_838764.shtml

The way I see it, Skype´s big asset was its name, it went viral and
suddenly "call me over IP" became "call me on skype". So it gained a
critical mass of users. But that´s about it.

FC