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2008-11-14 , 10:56
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#20
Originally Posted by qole View Post
People care much more about "just works" than abstract concepts of "freedom". And Skype "just works" through firewalls, across routers, around proxies, etc... without having to fiddle with opening ports on your router or anything. That's what people want. Easy, and Just Works.
But it's not the only one that "Just Works".
Take all the betamax offerings: their proprietary client just works, their rates for landline/mobile calls are better than skype, and you can use sip (with many ATAs or ADSL routers with phone ports that, again, just work) if you don't like/can't run the propietary program.
And nowadays most sip clients "just work", especially if they're branded/preconfigured by a sip provider.