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Cross-Platform VoIP Software?
feilkin writes "With the release of Skype's Linux client, I'm wondering about alternatives. Namely, cross-platform solutions for voice communication. I've got friends who are using Windows, Linux and OSX, and I'm hoping that there is a way to communicate with all of them. I myself am using Linux, and I haven't been able to find any solutions that seem fitting to my situation completely. Does anyone have a solution that'll be useful on all three platforms, or solutions that may be coming in the near future?"
re: Protocols and the rest of your first two bullet-points. I have no idea how this works / should work. So i don't have an opinion.. but your last point... I know im going to come of as a troll here, accepting this flamebait.. but i don't care... I am a reasonable and responsible adult and i will exorcise my right to express my views. I am thinking that you forget that the majority of people on this planet doesn't answer to your goverment or falls under its "anti-terror infrastructure" protection. You say 6-800 american people dead per year because the U.S. goverment doesn't have insight into VoIP? I then wonder how many swedish people it would protect if we let the U.S. monitor our phonelines. My guess is none. Why should "Homeland security" be alowed to listen in on my phonecalls you ask? There is no reason for it. Can you garantee me that this obvious power wouldn't be missused to listen in on the swedish calls? I am all for democracy and freedom for all men and women to live in peace, but I wouldn't want american goverment listening in on my phonecalls no matter what. I'm swedish. I don't answer to Gerorge W.Bush and his obviously hypocratic people. I don't want the swedish security agencys to listen either, but i realy don't think the U.S. should police the internet. Lets form an international board for that one! Then i might be ok with insight into my phonecalls. Peace /casa