dot.KDE Interviews Jaanus Kase On Skype Linux Client

Fabrice Mous writes "The KDE Dot editors contacted the P2P internet telephony company Skype Technologies to ask them some questions on their client software for Linux. You can read the interview with Jaanus Kase from Skype at dot.kde.org."

Comments

Skype the universe and everything

[tod_miller]

Skype being from the people behind Kazaa (read as people behind spyware bundled program) was a bit worrying for me. It does bundle spyware.

Except the PDA version!

Skype Pocket PC

I love the idea, a PDA has a speaker and microphone, but on my Axim X30High it didn't work (it mentions this as a known issue) I wanted to use it as a geeky phone on my wifi connection.

Other workmates have skype, so it looks cool :-)

I guess as more money goes into the kazaa company, the more chance they have of being viewed as a less evil company (they have totally dissassociated thier skype brand now, they used to have a big "from those guys who brought you kazaa" sign.)

Re:Skype the universe and everything

[Anonymous Coward]

they are the guys who made kazaa. sharman networks then bought kazaa and put all the spyware in it, not the people who make skype. check your facts

Re:Skype the universe and everything

[Anonymous Coward]

Hang on:

>It does bundle spyware.

You're saying that Skype bundles spyware, even when the FAQ for the PC version already disavows this?

From http://www.skype.com/help/faq/index.html:
Does Skype contain any advertising or spyware?
No.

So what are you talking about? Or is this a cleverly disguised troll?

Or maybe I'm completely mistaken, and you speak of the program Kazaa, which had spyware bundled onto it by the guys who BOUGHT KAZAA OFF the makers of Skype (i.e Sharman Networks).

Skype in a nutshell

[tod_miller]

Handles network address translation, i.e. goes through firewalls and:

"Better performance. MSN is server-based, meaning that performance suffers in peak hours and users simply cannot do voice calls due to server overload. Skype calls are truly P2P, involving the distributed network itself for routing calls, so it scales up very well and does not suffer from this kind of performance problems."

P2P, basically kazaa do have some knowledge of this :-) it is a great product, which is why it deserves to do well!

Saints of software!

[tod_miller]

They really seem to be making a good go of it, just look at this heart warming image from thier site:

No spyware, no adware no malware complete with halo!

I have got to admit they deserve success based on thier current efforts.