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http://www.openwengo.org/ Works well for me. Cross platform and works well for me.

There used to be something called Wengophone but it looks like its supporting company, Wengo, has moved onto other things.

As far as I know, the software is still being developed (at least no one admitted that it's being abandoned completely), but I am not so sure about the VoIP service itself. My account still seems to work (and apparently, they are not expiring points after 6 months any more, even though I can't find anything official that says they changed their rules), but I'm not sure if you can open a new one.

Try OpenWengo. It works as well as Skype. It is encrypted with the "NG release", available now. The download page says "secure PC-to-PC calls". See this discussion about encryption. It's Open Source. Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Try OpenWengo. It works as well as Skype. It is encrypted with the "NG release", available now. The download page says "secure PC-to-PC calls". See this discussion about encryption. It's Open Source. Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Try OpenWengo. It works as well as Skype. It is encrypted with the "NG release", available now. The download page says "secure PC-to-PC calls". See this discussion about encryption. It's Open Source. Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Time to mention Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting) and OpenWengo. They suck, but there you go...

It would be nice if enough people contributed and used http://www.openwengo.org/ so that it becomes a better alternative.
A nice exemple of some big companies believig in free software and trying to do it right.

Skype is a closed network with a secret protocol. And Skype is scary. Who knows how many more security holes lurk under their many layers of obfuscation? You're taking quite a risk if you let Skype onto your network.

I'm not saying this in order to troll, I'm just trying to correct widespread misperceptions about Skype, characterised by the belief that it's in some way better than yet another phone company. If you can, use a SIP-based IP phone instead. There are lots of SIP programs to choose from, they interoperate, if you want to dial out onto the PSTN there is a choice of providers, and you can get GPLv2 source code for the client. Far better than Skype's closed network and closed source monoculture.

Check out http://www.openwengo.org/. It's a Free Software SIP client that provides working, cross-platform audio/video chatting. It's written by a French company. They make money by providing the ability to call phone numbers. I've used it and while it's got a few rough edges, it works well on Debian and Windows.

Open VoIP Clients are Safer

Yes they are. And good ones are already available. You can now use OpenWengo as an alternative to Skype - it's GPL'ed code and uses a standard protocol (SIP), making it interoperable with most VoIP software. Except Skype.

Skype is a closed-source minefield of terrifying security holes just waiting to be stumbled upon by black hats and exploited for the usual reasons. It's a ready made peer to peer infrastructure that always uses encrypted communications, just waiting to be made into a botnet. Some security holes have already come to light - check this presentation out. A decade of security problems with Internet Explorer might seem tame in comparison to the problems that could emerge from Skype.

Wengo is advertising itself as a Skype replacement. The free WengoPhone is Open Source and SIP (telephone standards) compatible.

Does anyone have experience with Wengo? Skype is excellent, of course, but not open source and not compatible with standards.

Wengo Links:

Wengo French
Wengo English

WengoPhone

OpenWengo

Wengo consulting. Sell your technical knowledge over the phone.

"Who is Wengo? People like you all over the world
and the team: 35 people in France keeping you in touch."
Wengo started in 2005. "Wengo is a subsidiary of the group neufcegetel."

Confusion: It is difficult to find their telephone service rates pages. The one linked is for the countries beginning with B.

Debian Wengo: Package: wengophone (2.0.0~rc5-svn8108-2) "SIP-based software telephone with video and chat features."

Observations: Their web site is confused. The site is incorrectly translated to English in some places.

Yes, yes there are.

Twinkle (Linux) supports both SRTP and ZRTP.
Minisip and Minisplat (both Linux) presently support SRTP and are working toward ZRTP support.
Eyebeam (Windows) supports SRTP
ZFone (Windows, Linux, MacOSX) uses ZRTP and can work with any SIP-based software (because it intercepts and encrypts the stream).
OpenWengo (Windows, Linux) is in the process of implementing SRTP, with some automated key exchange, and later ZRTP is planned.

So really, the answer is: yes, yes there are implementations.

From the FAQ: http://www.openwengo.org/index.php/openwengo/publi c/homePage/openwengo/public/faq


Can I use <other_SIP_provider> instead of Wengo ?
This feature is planned for the NG release.


Because it's so hard to implement? it's not there yet...

I suggest you implement it -- your're going to have a hard time getting people onboard on yet another "we will be *the* VOIP provider"-scheme.

If you're an OSS project, and you want people to join in, contribute, admire or whatever, please, please, PLEASE, explain WTF you are and what you're doing on the main page of your web site. Don't make people hunt for this information. Otherwise we're likely to infer that you're just another overenthusiastic underorganized OSS group that has nothing interesting going on.

WengoPhone software is FOSS (GPL), cross-platform, and uses the SIP standard - all unlike Skype/Google Talk/Windows Live Messenger (though Skype is cross-platform). It's just as easy to use as the rest, so hopefully more people start using this. (I'm not affiliated with Wengo.)

There's a decent EARLY replacement for Skype available in OpenWengo but it's super beta at best right now. The voice quality isn't as good as Skype yet (at least from NorthAm). However, it's got a ton of potential (and video!).

OpenWengo http://wwww.openwengo.org/ has a desktop app, as well as a FF extension. The desktop app supports multiple IM protocols, as well as SIP. You can use the FF extension to make calls from the browser.

Been there, done that :)

I just stumbled upon the OpenWengo FF extension for Linux here

A great alternite to this extension is the openwengo firefox extension. Its a little buggy, but gets its job done and looks very nice. Its called openwengo, and you can get it from http://www.openwengo.org/ . Its open source, lightweight and also allows free phone line calls, which Abbeynet doesn't do.

Already in process.

Since EBay bought Skype, new features were only added to the windows version (like the video).

In fact, I still use an older version on OS X because it is less BUGGY than the newer, and I hate this clumsy blue login screen inside the user window. The "echo cancellation" feature has also vanished (instead of bug-fixing it).

On windows they have also played some dirty tricks to limitate usage of the software on AMD processors.

I'm already planning to kiss their ass good bye when my skypein subscription is over. Some other VOIP software exist.

I heard about Wengo. It's a GPL crossplatform one. And "oh miracle" has video on Mac and Linux too. It's likely to be my next VOIP.
http://www.openwengo.org/

there is one gpl'ed software that uses SIP, does VOIP, video and chat and works great on linux
http://www.openwengo.org/

openwengo not only uses open standard protocol but is also fully GPL.

Not a part of the OpenH323 project, but WengoPhone may catch your attention. :-)

Or use OpenWengo. :-)

OpenWengo... It's open source. :-)

Hm, I take that back. Looks like the linux version is unavailable and being ported - as you said. The site I was looking at, was actually openwengo, - much better than the zoep site. My bad.

The Wengo Firefox Extension has indeed already been released for Win32, and builds for both Mac OS X and GNU/Linux will be available shortly.

A recent .DEB package of the classic "desktop" WengoPhone and full source code is available from the recently redesigned OpenWengo developer website. The crew hangs out on freenode #openwengo - come and say hi ;)

mmh, and Gizmo is far more secure than Skype... Michael Robertson told it :-p
Come on, this is also an american project... better try openwengo from France : at least you know that FBI will not listen... http://www.openwengo.org/