[PLUG] open source Skype clients?

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Mon Dec 7 19:56:38 UTC 2009


On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 01:48:00PM -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> I didn't realize that Google Talk works on Linux.  A quick check still
> shows that it's Windows-only:
> 
> http://www.google.com/talk/
> 
> So that's not going to work.

Sorry, that page is a bit misleading.  The official Google Talk voice
client runs only on Winders.  The protocol is Jingle (sorta), which is open
and runs lots of places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol)

But you're right, Skype does "easy voice/video chat" very well.




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