Formerly known as WengoPhone , QuteCom softphone is an open-source, multi-platform VoIP client that uses the open protocol SIP – – Session Initiation Protocol. Whilst the GUI is built on Qt 4.4.0 – – QuteCom looks and feels like Gizmo5 or Skype, the Video-over-IP is based on Ffmpeg’s libavcodec. QuteCom IM is backed by libpurple […]
Skype 1.4 for Linux has been finally released. Even though Skype is not an Open Source client and many hard-core Open Source Voip users prefer WengoPhone [Update: April 14, 2009] WengoPhone is now known as QuteCom, Asterick and others, Skype still remains the most used Voice-Over-Ip client and the 1.4 version for Linux includes two […]
A program is not bad just because it’s not Open Source (or Free Software, or whatever the politically correct way to describe it is nowadays), but when the program tries to create it’s own protocol/file format/etc… when there are agreed upon standards, That is a bad thing. It is a practice used when trying to […]