From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:21:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F04DC38-FF96-4F31-A75D-8EF398D73C7D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52163779.90809@gentoo.org>
On 22 August 2013, at 17:08, hasufell wrote:
> … I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot, consumes a
> lot of ressources and is able to slow down your whole desktop, mess with
> audio settings and whatnot.
My granny never had these problems, using Skype on her PC.
She uses it to chat to her cousin in Australia.
Whatever your complaints about a messaging application, you offer no solution if you don't offer a way to communicate with users who are only capable of running a setup.exe, who have this tremendously popular and well-known application already installed.
This "network effect" is not a new phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-23 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-20 15:12 [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative Randy Westlund
2013-08-20 16:25 ` the
2013-08-21 1:09 ` Pavel Volkov
2013-08-21 5:35 ` the
2013-08-21 6:59 ` Jean-Christophe Bach
2013-08-22 14:42 ` Randy Westlund
2013-08-21 9:34 ` Marc Joliet
2013-08-21 14:48 ` hasufell
2013-08-21 15:59 ` Jean-Christophe Bach
2013-08-21 16:17 ` hasufell
2013-08-22 5:39 ` Pavel Volkov
2013-08-22 15:49 ` Marc Stürmer
2013-08-22 15:58 ` hasufell
2013-08-22 16:05 ` Marc Stürmer
2013-08-22 16:08 ` hasufell
2013-08-22 16:11 ` Marc Stürmer
2013-08-22 16:23 ` hasufell
2013-08-23 9:21 ` Stroller [this message]
2013-08-23 9:42 ` the
2013-08-23 10:39 ` Marc Stürmer
2013-08-23 10:50 ` the
2013-08-23 11:10 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-08-23 11:49 ` the
2013-08-23 11:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-23 13:18 ` Marc Stürmer
2013-08-23 13:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-23 15:39 ` Marc Stürmer
2013-08-23 15:48 ` Marc Stürmer
2013-08-23 15:58 ` hasufell
2013-08-23 18:09 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-08-23 20:23 ` hasufell
2013-08-23 16:44 ` the
2013-08-23 11:25 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-08-23 14:50 ` the
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