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Re: RE : Re: let's try for a Sunday call?
From:
"Georg C. F. Greve" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Georg C. F. Greve
Date:
Thu, 17 May 2007 18:18:44 +0200
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 || On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:10:49 +0200
 || Olivier Nana Nzépa <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 

 onn> Why Skype is no go solution?

Besides using your bandwidth for peer to peer purposes that you have
no knowledge or control of, Skype is proprietary software relying on a
proprietary protocol.

So using it excludes people who care about Open Standards or
democratic control of information technology, among other things.

Regards,
Georg

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