Comments on: GNU Telephony and cross platform development

By: Addison

Addison — Sat, 05 May 2012 05:20:21 +0000

Unlike much open source software — such as operating systems or applications — telephony benefits by having as many compatible participants as possible. To Ted Morin’s point, it is in everyone’s interest to deploy gnuTelephony to the widest possible audience — including especially proprietary client platforms — which happen to comprise the bulk of the population. I expect we all have friends, family and associates using proprietary platforms. Not supporting them limits gnuTelphony’s utility for everyone. This seems to argue in favor of encouraging implementation even on unsecure systems. One hopes the design of gnuTelphony will be robust and not allow a damaged or corrupted client on one platform to infect others in the system. After all, with open source, it is easy for bad actors to deliberately fashion their own misbehaving deviant clients.

By: Addison

Addison — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:32:31 +0000

By: Haakon Meland Eriksen

Haakon Meland Eriksen — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:43:42 +0000

@Ted Hi! Using an open and vendor-independent standard like SIP means you can use the apps that works best for you. I recently posted a personal blog post about using Linphone through GNU SIP Witch on Debian GNU/Linux, which you can read and see screen-shots at

http://friendika.gnutelephony.org/display/haakon/121221

In your situation, with users on multiple platforms, I think a look at Linphone 3.5.2 might be a good idea – http://www.linphone.org/eng/download/packages/linphone.html . Using the same client can have advantages too, as you can support each other if you need help.

In addition to Linphone, I have some experience using CSipSimple, which you can read and see screen-shots of at http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/CSipSimple_for_Android .

Please join us on the distributed and federated social network Friendica through one of the open Friendica services at http://dir.friendica.com/siteinfo . You can then connect to me at http://friendika.gnutelephony.org/profile/haakon and let us know which SIP clients worked best for you in your network.

Haakon

By: Ted Morin

Ted Morin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:32:13 +0000

I really do hope that cross-platform development continues. I understand your concerns against proprietary systems.

However, the main reason that I’ve been following GNU Telephony for the past year is because I’ve been waiting for something cross-platform that works. I really like your visions, and I really am looking forward to the project’s success.

Originally, I came across the project when my friends and I were looking for a good Skype replacement. We run Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu, one each, and so talking over some service where all three version numbers are different always had some glitches.

I hope that development for Windows and OSX _is_ pursued. I think it adds to the freedom and important. Where a software is meant for communication, communicating to everyone no matter their hardware is important.

Thanks for your time,

Ted.

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Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:38:00 +0000

[...] GNU Telephony and cross platform development With cross platform development comes some important questions of software freedom. There would be no true software freedom if we said we would permit our software to compile and run only on specific platforms, that is after all what proprietary software vendors often do. However in GNU Telephony we do principally develop and test our software on GNU systems specifically and do not have expertise in or interest in supporting proprietary ones. [...]

By: Gyll

Gyll — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:42:29 +0000

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