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No, the Skype killer has another name: WebRTC. And Wire seems like yet another closed-source GUI making use of the WebRTC stack. I honestly prefer FOSS solution
by joeyspn 12y ago
No, the Skype killer has another name: WebRTC. And Wire seems like yet another closed-source GUI making use of the WebRTC stack. I honestly prefer FOSS solutions: Tox, oTalk, Jitsi, etc... oTalk looks really promising
- jkaljundi 12y agoHave not heard mainstream users or kids or grannys using any of those? Are they popular?
- amandine 12y agoIMO the ideal world is one where everyone can use their preferred app and still be able to chat and VoIP with everyone else... Like email basically...
- lmedinas 12y agoI'm surprised nobody here mentioned Firefox Hello, which seems also to be using WebRTC. Of course it's not fully cross-platform but afaik you can do connections between Firefox and other browsers using WebRTC.
- amandine 12y agoWhat about matrix.org who's trying to fix the fragmentation by providing an open standardized signalling layer for WebRTC? Might interest you too! We've been working on integrating with Jitsi, although not finished yet
- joeyspn 12y agoNice project. Have you hear about OpenPeer? They're doing a similar thing... providing an open standardized signalling (P2P) layer for WebRTC... http://openpeer.org/ http://openpeer.org/
- amandine 12y agoYes we're in touch with them. Matrix and Open Peer are complementary technologies - Matrix is focused entirely on the client/server use-case for messaging between always-on persistent federated messaging stores. Open Peer is obviously focused on adhoc p2p messaging without much persistent serverside history.
- kansface 12y agoWebRTC is a monster to implement (and a moving standard at that). It will be quite some time before enough OSS software exists to really replace skype. Besides, it is really hard to displace social networks with new ones, particularly when the new banner is "freedom".