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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:10:25 -0800
From:      Renegade Penguin <renegadepenguin@comcast.net>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: skype and other *phones
Message-ID:  <457E55E1.7090100@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <d9175cad0612112305t85fcdd4q5babfedd52e4bbb0@mail.gmail.com>
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Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
>
> If you are open to suggestions on other  phone systems, I have been very
> much enjoying my gizmo account.  (gizmoproject.com)  I generally use 
> ekiga
> to connect to it, but the benefit of gizmo is that it uses the 
> standard SIP
> protocol for accessing the service.  Further, the rates are quite 
> good.  For
> free it gives services like incoming phone calls, voice mail, and free
> SIP<->SIP calls.  For a $.01/minute (for US numbers) fee it gives 
> outgoing
> to-landline calls.  Don't mean to sound like an advertisement, I just 
> love
> open standards being used.
>
> Eric Kjeldergaard
>
Yes, but the gizmoproject is particularly onerous.  Look at the EULA:

http://www.gizmoproject.com/gizmo-end-user.html

Michael Robertson is the head of that project, IIRC.  Fairly nasty EULA 
for using such "open" terms.  Can't even redistribute the software.

Pity.



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