Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the open-is-better-right dept.
slackah writes "OpenWengo an open source alternative to skype. It includes features such as sip calls, SMS, video conference, and automatic NAT configuration. It's still under heavy development, but it looks very promising."
If their website failing under load is any indication of the level of service that *may* be provided by their alternative in the future, I must say that I wouldn't be using them.
YMMV.
Hopefully they give it a better name
by
saskboy
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· Score: 4, Funny
Before releasing it, it better have a simple name like Wengo or Rype.
I think the word Open in the first bit of every free OS software is going to hinder adoption by the unwashed masses.
I guess the point is that an open source project probably isn't able to do this. You know, the topic and stuff.
There's another open-source alternative
by
meisterk
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· Score: 4, Funny
It's called OpenBlah, it has many features: HDTV streaming, 96Khz/24 sampling lossless encoding at 120:1 compression ratio, peer-to-peer real-time updates without restarting and an undelrying small-talk based OS with a korn shell! It's still under heavy developement (they just hit the planning milestone) but surely will it kick evil, closed-format Skype's ass like there's no tomorrow.
Re:Open source alternative added value
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Funny
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If their website failing under load is any indication of the level of service that *may* be provided by their alternative in the future, I must say that I wouldn't be using them.
YMMV.
Before releasing it, it better have a simple name like Wengo or Rype.
I think the word Open in the first bit of every free OS software is going to hinder adoption by the unwashed masses.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I guess the point is that an open source project probably isn't able to do this. You know, the topic and stuff.
It's called OpenBlah, it has many features: HDTV streaming, 96Khz/24 sampling lossless encoding at 120:1 compression ratio, peer-to-peer real-time updates without restarting and an undelrying small-talk based OS with a korn shell! It's still under heavy developement (they just hit the planning milestone) but surely will it kick evil, closed-format Skype's ass like there's no tomorrow.
12?!? And you're on Slashdot??
**looks again**
Oh. Nevermind.