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Tox is a Free Software project whose goal is to free users from the grip of Proprietary instant messengers like Skype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28pro

Tox is a Free Software project whose goal is to free users from the grip of Proprietary instant messengers like Skype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28protocol%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28protocol%29

brador 11y ago
Why have free alternatives to Skype not taken off? What's missing? It's just a 2 way video stream, right?
- Joona 11y ago
  Users. Skype is the replacement for MSN Messenger, which people just used for chatting with friends.
- wmil 11y ago
  NAT / Firewalls cause a lot of issues. Peer to peer data isn't as straightforward as you'd expect. The Skype people actually came from Kazaa, so they had a lot of experience with sending peer data across corporate / educational firewalls. WebRTC is trying to generalize the technology, but it's new.
- Dylan16807 11y ago
  Plus asynchronous text chat.