skype shoots self in foot

Fri Apr 26 12:45:35 UTC 2013

> and while you are looking at escaping other big company servers,
> check out http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html, real
> peer to peer dropbox.

This looks very useful. Would love to see mobile devices (e.g. Tablets) supporting it. 

I dislike having to put my stuff on servers just for sharing among my devices. 

Cheers,
Rajiv

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On Apr 26, 2013, at 2:15 AM, "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> skype seems to have made the latest 6.x incompatible with 2.8 (which
> folk who care about screen real estate run) in that video no longer
> works between them.
> 
> until widespread availability of webrtc, a bunch of us are using
> jitsi for video, https://jitsi.org/ 
>  o uses open standard protocols
>  o free, open source, apple pie, ...
>  o supports opus codec which has really good performance across a
>    wide range of bandwidth http://www.opus-codec.org/comparison/
>  o multi-participant video on xmpp-based videobridge, also open
>    source
>  o does xmpp, sip, aim, icq, yahoo, ...
> 
> i have an ejabberd+videobridge up if folk want test/use accounts.
> and it's easy to put up your own, of course.
> 
> and while you are looking at escaping other big company servers,
> check out http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html, real
> peer to peer dropbox.
> 
> randy
> 