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Re:Bye Bye Skype, Top 3 Free Replacements by sigzero on Monday May 16, 2011 @08:47AM (#2552364)
Everyone that I know that uses Skype couldn't care about the difference.
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Re:Bye Bye Skype, Top 3 Free Replacements by FrojoS on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:03AM (#2552389)
How many of those people do you want to video chat with regulary?
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Re:Bye Bye Skype, Top 3 Free Replacements by eropple on Monday May 16, 2011 @10:26AM (#2552579)
Most of them, because I actually work with them.

It may come as a shock to some people, but the overwhelming majority of people--even in the tech would--literally could not care less if their VOIP client is FSF-approved and based on open standards. "Does it work?" is a much more powerful consideration.

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Re:Bye Bye Skype, Top 3 Free Replacements by bxr on Monday May 16, 2011 @02:32PM (#2553610)
>It may come as a shock to some people...

Outside of your strawmen, I don't think you're shocking anybody.

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Re:Bye Bye Skype, Top 3 Free Replacements by eropple on Monday May 16, 2011 @03:23PM (#2553803)
I dunno, the concept seems rather foreign to the person I replied to.

In the general case, for the overwhelming majority of people, things that work are more important than things that are ideologically pure.

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