On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Perkins</b> <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:<br>><br>> Skype's not bad at all.<br>><br>- except that once installed, you act as a peer on Skype's peer-to-peer<br>directory network. After installing Skype on one of my workstations I ended up
<br>with hundreds of random IP addresses on different random ports banging away 24/7<br>at my firewall. Makes trying to find the bad guys (assuming that doesn't include<br>Skype!) quite difficult.<br><br>- couldn't get the linux version of the Skype software to work. It seems they
<br>haven't quite got the bugs out of the 64-bit version (YMMV).</blockquote><div><br><br>Don't forget that there's TWO open protocols that the rest of the internet world use (SIP and IAX to a lesser extent) that Skype not only ignored, but purposefully made incompatible.
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