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0 pointsStavrosK15y ago0 comments

Neither.

Ideals aren't about convenience, that's why they're ideals. While I love Skype, I can appreciate the fact that it's stifling innovation and killing interoperability, since you can't use it with SIP...

It's as if we had email, and then a proprietary protocol which everyone used. Countless services would never have been created.

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borism15y ago· 2 in thread

except Skype works with SIP now:

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/sip/overview/

StavrosKOP15y ago

Wow, this is great news, thanks!

EDIT: Wait, this just converts your SIP phones to work with Skype, it doesn't allow you to call other SIP phones. E.g. I can't use it to call Truphone/Gizmo users with it. It's a two-tier phone service, same as IM clients. This is why the GP's ideals are a good thing.

borism15y ago

Would you enlighten me how it is supposed to call Truphone/Gizmo unless the owners of those services specifically want to connect them trough SIP gateway? Is Skype supposed to go out and find every standalone SIP setup in the world and connect to it?

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