Open source skype?

[latham1982]

Does the open source community have/have any plans to create a program like skype that can allows people to talk to each other over computers? and possibly to landlines like skype can?
john

[Lovechild]

You want GnomeMeeting2 which is due out in December (in beta form).

[stoeptegel]

There is gizmo, it's not in the repos but it is an open source alternative.

[twistadrulerz]

OOO thx alot gonna check out

[Lovechild]

There is gizmo, it's not in the repos but it is an open source alternative.

Gizmo is typical linspire crap, it comes with no source - it's just like skype only it uses an open protocol, I cannot see how gizmo is a less evil replacement for skype

[majikstreet]

Gizmo is typical linspire crap, it comes with no source - it's just like skype only it uses an open protocol, I cannot see how gizmo is a less evil replacement for skype
what do you use then?

[jeremy]

Gizmo is not open source, there are two that I know of that are:
GnomeMeeting2 (as was previously mentioned) - Ver. 1.2.2 is in the repos, and
OpenWengo - http://www.openwengo.com/ - needs work, but looks very promising.

[majikstreet]

how do you use this "gnomemeeting2"?

[Lovechild]

what do you use then?

Right now I use Skype because when I needed VoIP about 8 months ago this was the only application I knew about that offered PC-POTS/POTS-PC, however today I'm leaning towards GnomeMeeting 2 which is showing excellent promise.