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Pingtel Open Source VoIP Debuts in Europe

Posted by timothy on from the still-early-in-the-game dept.

jasperbg writes "The Register has an interesting article on open-source VoIP provider Pingtel's debut in Europe. Pingtel is a commercial company which packages and sells products based on code from the SIPfoundry open source community."

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  1. Package and Sell by Kinky+Bass+Junk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It always seems strange to see a company that "packages and sells open source software", it makes it sound as though all it does is crawl the net for open source software, and then sell it as their own.

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  2. skype... by torrents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it would be nice if there was an open source alternative to skype that got major backing by some big players... let's hope this is it! (not that skype isn't good, it's great... but competition is even greater)

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    1. Re:skype... by fullstop · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's certainly be nice to have some open-source Skype-grade competitors coming up. But I am sure this is not likely be one of them. Skype's PSP architecture is still unique and SIP-based products are simply not going to get any close (to this architecture) in the short run.

  3. Re:So? by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I call godwin's on that...
    Its finaly nice that VoIP services are comming here in an open source form , i just wonder how they are going to deal with emergency dialing , Since the rulling last week over in the USA i hope they had good sense to deal with it from the groud up , rather than rulling against them forcing them to do a rush job

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  4. Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

  5. Is parent post for real? by gibbsjoh · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Something about this post seems odd. Maybe I've just been trolled (!), its Monday morning and my brain is still off. Anyone else think this is bogus? The giveaway, for me is "the VOIP suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site." Huh? Vonage reading from an intranet site? Ugh, coffee...

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  6. Re:So? by NiteHaqr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The whole emergency services thing is a pile of crap. Just because a VoIP service performs LIKE a telephone, doesn't make it a telephone service.

    The 9xx issue is just a way for the authorities to get their foot in the door of regulating VoIP.

    I really feel that education about what exactly VoIP is and isn't would be better than regulation - It is a real shame that it takes death and injury for people to actually pay attention to the limitations of technology.