Today we feature an interview with Frank W. Miller, Ph.D., developer of the CornfedSIP User Agent VoIP client for Linux. We discuss the merits of VoIP, its problems and its future.
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Member since:2005-06-28
Member since:I agree. Gizmo's decision to treat Linux as a second-class platform and to treat non-debian distributions as third-class citizens is a huge mistake.
I have wanted to like the project for a good while, but they have not made it easy for me and I have finally standardized on Skype for now, which means that it will be a while before I switch because it was hard enough to move my contacts from MSN or AOL to skype.
Their loss. Gizmo could have and does have a lot of unrealized potential. In fact, I was really rooting for it, but I think they simply don't have the developer resources or the willingness to bring true multiplatform support.
Supporting Suse, Mandrake, Fedora, Debian and a static tar.gz installation just like skype does is all they would need to do.
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2005-07-06
...it's nice to see more developers embracing VoIP. On the long run, I believe that those who are in it early will reap the most benefits. However, it must be said that - IMHO - those clients that do not support the SIP protocol are already doomed. That's why I support projects like Gizmo, because they make sure the users of VoIP don't become fragmented, by basing their technology on open standards. :-)
http://www.gizmoproject.com/