[liberationtech] skype

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On 03/30/2013 11:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> 
> Microsoft, like many corporations, employs professional spokesliars
> who are very, very good at crafting wording that can be defended
> (should it come to that) but which doesn't present the truth in a
> straightforward fashion.  That's their JOB.  After all: anyone
> there could tell the truth -- it's not hard.  But it takes a
> trained and practiced professional to evade it, obscure it, conceal
> it, dance around it in convincing fashion -- and even use it in
> limited ways when it serves the purpose.
> 
*** Too long for a tweet; awesome prose!

> 
> That said, though, even if I'm right on all those points, that's
> not going to stop people from using it.  And that's where *you're*
> right: I wish you weren't, but you are, and I don't know how to fix
> that situation.
> 
*** I don't know either, but Jitsi provides such a good alternative to
Skype that the only blocking "feature" is the social network: when
people using skype intensively decide to switch to Jitsi (or other
SIP-compatible clients), it's done. Is it merely a matter of marketing
and network effect? Is it a matter of promoting SIP services at ISP
level? How to beat the inertia of a bad habit?

==
hk
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