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Ask Slashdot: FOSS, Multiplatform Skype Replacement for PC-to-PC Video Chat?

Posted by timothy on from the really-long-cardboard-tube dept.

obarthelemy writes "Skype having just been borged, now may be a good time to hedge our bets and look for a replacement. I'm *not* looking for something that interfaces with POTS, but just a simple PC-to-PC video chat tool that is very easy to configure and use, reliable, multiplatform (my family has Windows, Linux, MacOS; iOS and Android would be nice extras), and has good video/voice quality. We're almost only skyping with each other. What would you recommend?"

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  1. Re:Skype by Haeleth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If anything, I am hoping Microsoft will actually work well on it and improve on it greatly.

    Microsoft is very likely to work on Skype and improve it greatly.

    Microsoft is very unlikely to make the versions they have worked on and greatly improved available for any platforms other than Microsoft Windows, and possibly OS X if you're really lucky.

    Got an Android phone? You'd better stop depending on Skype, as quickly as you can, because you can bet your bottom dollar one of the first things that will happen is that "chat with all your friends on Skype!" will become a unique selling point of the Microsoft Windows Phone platform.