[PLUG] WIRE instead of Skypeforlinux...

elcaseti . elcaseti at gmail.com
Mon Dec 16 21:52:57 UTC 2019


I forgot to mention that I trust the companies behind Signal & Wire a lot
more than Skype (Microsoft).  That is why I stopped using Skype years ago.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:50 PM elcaseti . <elcaseti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Linphone has been around for years, & it still doesn't work.  Signal
> Private Messenger works very well, & it's quite popular.  I use it with
> friends and family every day.  You do need to install Signal to a
> smartphone.  Then you can use it on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS.  The
> desktop version only supports texting & sending files.  For voice calls &
> video calls, you have to use the smartphone version of Signal.  "
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)"
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 PM <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just checking, based on your comments:
>> Do you need Skype working or are you looking for an alternative?
>>
>> Most of us who need Skype need it to communicate with other people, and
>> they are
>> not going to switch - so that is that for us.
>>
>> Tomas
>>
>> On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 20:35 +0000, michael at robinson-west.com wrote:
>> > Is it open source and more featureful than Skype? There are apparently
>> servers
>> > for WIRE in Switzerland, but it is encrypted in and from those servers?
>> >
>> > How about linphone?
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