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From: Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Sound freezes
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:29:15
Message-Id: 20140813182908.GK2123@home.power
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Sound freezes by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Hi!
2
3 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:17:54PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
4 > skype considers itself master over users and refuses to give them the
5 > right to see and modify the code running on their own systems, there's
6 > little that can be done, except to choose not to run code from people who
7 > refuse to recognize my rights as a user, which is exactly what I do.
8
9 I'm 100% agree. I hate Skype and successfully avoided it for years.
10 But, thing is, some of my customers and co-workers use it, it's "corporate
11 standard" for them, so only choice I have is either lose some interesting
12 work projects and ability to talk with several friends or start using
13 Skype. :(
14
15 I just hope people will start moving from Skype soon, maybe to Tox.im or
16 some other open and secure alternative (I just hope it won't be Hangouts).
17
18 --
19 WBR, Alex.

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[gentoo-desktop] Re: Sound freezes Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>