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."

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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!