[ILUG] Skype released for Linux

[Nick Murtagh]

Dermot Daly wrote:
> Skype is a VOIP solution which allows you to call others in the world
> for free.  It is similar in concept to H.323 and SIP, except the
> protocol is proprietary, and the people who wrote it claim they
> basically applied P2P file sharing techniques to the concept of voice
> calls.

Strangely enough the SIP people don't seem to like it :)

   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/22/sip_versus_skype/