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Re:Great. Skype is down. by viraptor on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @01:42PM (#2032043)
What I was trying to say is that currently - no, we do not have any sane working solution. It's not about setting up and configuration. It simply doesn't work as advertised. It's not distributed (unfortunately) and half of the industry works very hard to prevent it from being distributed (although I wouldn't attribute it to malice).

XMPP/jingle is in a much better position to be the distributed answer. SIP is not.

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Re:Great. Skype is down. by mike-cardwell on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @01:53PM (#2032080)
Ok, I was simply addressing this nonsensical comment:

"I personally would greatly fear a decentralized system like Skype, for many reasons. Peer-to-peer anything comes with its own truckload of problems, and would do more harm here than good (as with the DNS)."

Thank you for mentioning Jingle. I was not aware of its existence.

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