Skype 4.0

animelovin at gmail.com animelovin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 22:06:45 UTC 2012


On 06/15/2012 05:25 PM, Robert Simmons wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Rich Neese<r.neese at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I just wish skype would get off their buts and make a bsd version. time
>> to break code and make a opensource version
>
> That's not the answer.  Really, everyone needs to move away from Skype
> altogether.  Use Blink.  It is a superior client and it uses SIP
> rather than Skype's network.  Making a FreeBSD port of it has been on
> my list of things to do for quite a while, I just haven't had the
> time.
>
> If you want to check it out you can find it here:
> http://devel.ag-projects.com/repositories/blink-qt/
>
> It is written in Python, and it is GPL.  There is a MacOS binary and a
> Windows binary download of it on their website.
> http://icanblink.com/index.phtml
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Thanks for the intelligent answer, I could have not said anything better.

Will look into SIP/Blink for a more secure alternative than skype... :-)

Regards,
Etienne


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