<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/24 Bret Busby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bret@busby.net">bret@busby.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Brenda Aynsley wrote:<br>
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> Mobile:+61(0) 412 662 988 || Skype: callto://baynsley<br>
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You pay for Skype (proprietary, commercial thingy...)?<br>
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Wot about Ekiga (Open Source, I think, and, a package in Debian 4.0);<br>
<a href="http://www.ekiga.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ekiga.org/</a> , <a href="http://packages.debian.org/etch/ekiga" target="_blank">http://packages.debian.org/etch/ekiga</a> .<br>
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:)<br></blockquote></div>I could hazard a guess... Because Skype is more than a VOIP tool, it's a social network that is already very widely spread and accepted PLUS allows for usage on PDA's and other devices. Oh and Skype works with other Skype users...<br>
<br>Ekiga, not so much...<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ubuntu Hardy 8.04<br>The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states.<br>Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons.<br>
Wishing to cultivate their persons they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts.<br>Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things - Confucius<br>
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