Skype

[Smylers]

Joel Bernstein writes:

> My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
> interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
> provide an open standard which Skype ignore.

Mine is that you have to use Skype's software with it, because they
don't publish the protocol.  Their Linux client isn't terrible, but it
doesn't integrate into Gnome as well as, say, Pidgin.  But I keep
wanting to hack small changes into it, then remembering that I can't.

Smylers