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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives
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David Gerard |
Subject: |
Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives |
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Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:35:00 +0100 |
What about this isn't just the network effect problem?
Skype wins on network effect. (My utterly nontechnical mother got
broadband *just* to Skype to her grandchildren. "Video phone" =
"Skype". [1])
Ubuntu included Ekiga in the default install for ages. It works
perfectly well. They eventually took it out because pretty much no-one
used it.
I submit that the problem is not the software itself - it's gaining
network effect for the software, to overcome the proprietary
incumbent.
- d.
[1] yes, this is bad, but I'm describing the ground first.
- [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, Sam Tuke, 2012/09/13
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, Dan MacDonald, 2012/09/13
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] [FSFE-Manc] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, D.Bolton U0970268, 2012/09/14
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, Mike Dupont, 2012/09/14
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, Torsten Grote, 2012/09/14
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, Timo Juhani Lindfors, 2012/09/14
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives,
David Gerard <=
- [Fsuk-manchester] Skype alternatives: getting started, Sam Tuke, 2012/09/15
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, Dave Page, 2012/09/15
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives, Sam Tuke, 2012/09/28