[governance] RE: Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype

[Carlos Afonso]

Well, big telcos or e-Bay, not much difference... but many voIP nets
(both for-profit and non-profit) are built on SIP and using the open
Asterisk system, and I think if this failure happens the open voIP
alternative will receive a big boost. In this case, unfortunately there
remains the problem of the best codecs still being proprietary, but this
is not precluding Asterisk-based nets from spreading to the point that
voIP hardware makers are building their devices Asterisk-ready.

One (temporary?) advantage of the Skype net is that they manage to
charge less than local commercial voIP services in several countries
even for local calls -- due I guess to massive bulk contracts with data
networks (the advantage of having that $$$ scale...).

frt rgds

--c.a.

Avri Doria wrote:
> 
> On 1 Aug 2009, at 17:06, Michael Gurstein wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm.. Maybe it is too big to fail...
> 
> 
> my guess is that the incumbent telecom providers would love to see it
> fail.  plus 'too big to fail' just mean that rich people will feel some
> pain if it fails,  has nothing to do with the needs of LDCs, NGOs.
> 
> one thought, since Zennstrom et al, still hold the license on the core
> piece of technology, can't we assume that if they can't get sufficient
> compensation from eBay, they will either come out with a new offering
> themselves or find someone else to license it and put out a new offering?
> 
> what is sad is that no one really believes that eBay can get it to work
> with VoIP.
> 
> a.
> 
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