GNU Free Call: A Proposed Free Phone To Skype

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67342

    GNU Free Call: A Proposed Free Phone To Skype

    Phoronix: GNU Free Call: A Proposed Free Phone To Skype

    The GNU Free Call project was released today. It's a project that's self described to be a new communication service to compete with Skype that is designed to be free as in freedom and free as in no cost...

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  • r1348
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2007
    • 636

    #2
    Decentralized, crypted SIP communicaton? I'm already drooling.

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    • conorsulli
      Junior Member
      • Oct 2010
      • 15

      #3
      No doubt they will have a better name when the actual produact is released I hope...

      "GNU free call" vs "skype" ya know what I mean?

      or will it be known as just "freecall" which aint that bad I suppose

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      • nico342
        Phoronix Member
        • Feb 2009
        • 51

        #4
        That sound a great idea !

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        • snuwoods
          Senior Member
          • May 2010
          • 188

          #5
          okay, this is practically on par with a steam release.
          decentralized and opensource!!!

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          • Nille
            Senior Member
            • Jul 2008
            • 1305

            #6
            Smells like potential port forwarding hell. I hope they make it so easy like Skype.

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            • Ellipsis
              Junior Member
              • Aug 2009
              • 2

              #7
              As stated Open Source projects really need to come up with some better names. GNU Free Call... is mehhhh just call it Free Call.

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              • TechMage89
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2007
                • 411

                #8
                I have a challenge for it:
                Work through an http proxy that only allows encrypted tcp traffic destined for port 443.

                You can't really do that without relays.
                Who will provide that infrastructure? The only possibility I can think of is to have connected users serve as relays like Skype nodes.

                The problem there is that you need a way to intelligently route traffic in a low-latency manner through nodes that may have questionable reliability, and the stream transmission guarantee of tcp is a major stumbling-block to that.

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                • BlackStar
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2007
                  • 2103

                  #9
                  The project has already failed, they just don't know it yet. Why, you say? Just read the "how" section in the article.

                  In short, will this thing list all my friends so I can just click on "call" to talk to them? Without manual setup and user guides? Will I be able to call landlines?

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                  • Pickup
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Mar 2008
                    • 51

                    #10
                    To Skype or not to Skype?

                    Will be possible to contact a Skype user via GNU free call? AND (not OR) vice versa? if I do skype calls via facebook can I reach or be reached by a GFC user?

                    If the answer is no... Ekiga . Game over, Gnu Free Call .

                    P.S. What about IP to non-IP calls?

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