The issue seems to be reliability. Ventrillo was a bad situation because it could change one day and break anything built on top of it. With an OS and some hard

The issue seems to be reliability. Ventrillo was a bad situation because it could change one day and break anything built on top of it. With an OS and some hardware, I can be confident that a program written today will still run a year from now, because those have proven to be reliable platforms.