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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:12:58 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
To:        erob@gthcfoundation.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD not so free anymore ? Long live FreeBSD...
Message-ID:  <CADLo838zh%2B%2Batry6R-t6_8tiSJ4-UKeTmTnkp6RsrDMn8G-DOg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FDB7698.2010207@gthcfoundation.org>
References:  <20120615130839.2bbb9d51@scorpio> <4FDB7698.2010207@gthcfoundation.org>

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On 15 June 2012 18:53, Etienne Robillard <animelovin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2012 01:08 PM, Jerry wrote:
>>
>> Skype 4.0 for Linux is now available. Is there any possibility of
>> getting it ported to FreeBSD? The latest version in ports is only
>> 2.x.
>
>
>
> Why not? Thinking FreeBSD could become immune to remote exploits is absur=
d.
>
> So without much efforts =A0I can guess ports like Skype will become more
> widespread now that FreeBSD has gived up on network security, preferring =
to
> announce critical security vulnerabilities once the exploit has been
> confirmed without any warnings.
>
> A good reason to stop using this bloated OS if you ask me and use
> something more respectful to their users base relaying on STABLE for
> stability reasons...
>

New versions of Skype require ALSA.  This is at their insistence.

Chris



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