Three easy steps to writing an SJVN article:
- Notice a recent accquisition by Microsoft (Skype, in this case).
- Suddenly declare this product to be inferior.
- Back it up with lies in the hopes people won’t call you out on your agenda.
He obviously didn’t do any research beyond what he thinks will support his claims.
He claims Skype, being P2P, can’t work with firewalled PCs which is flat out untrue.
He claims it’s heavily encrypted (256 bit), but somehow 3rd parties along the way can see your data, so which one is it? He’s just playing off people’s paranoia, saying “it goes through a lot of computers”...yeah, that’s called a NETWORK!
He claims P2P is way more unreliable than it really is, yet we all seem to be making skype calls just fine and all those P2P torrents are doing well too.
He claims that because of the P2P nature, that Skype is doing things on the cheap and that’s why it should be considered crap. The thing is, Skype has been successful despite doing things on the cheap. SJVN has frequently pushed the “free as in beer” benefits of FOSS, so why is it suddenly wrong for Skype to do the same?
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“yeah, that’s called a NETWORK!”
This guy needs some serious introduction to the majestic world of traceroute, or, as the cool kids call it – “Tracer-T”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM
Worse still, the article is in ZDNet’s “networking” section.
“The SN in turn, stores your Skype name, your e-mail address, and an encrypted version of your password.”
I wonder where he got that from, as the skype docs no where mention such storage.
“Don’t ask me how Microsoft proposes to marry Skype’s lame modified P2P network with Lync and the rest of its Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS).”
Wat.
“[...] and the codecs used by Skype, while somewhat proprietary, Fraunhofer-based, are pretty efficient.”
He links to Radium MP3 there.. Not only MP3 is unusable for VoIP, but
“Audio codecs
Skype uses an array of different audio compression methods including G.729 and SVOPC. Skype added a Skype-created codec called SILK to Skype 4.0 for Windows and other Skype clients. SILK is intended to be “lightweight and embeddable”.[96]” ( Wikipedia )
Looks all the way Fraunhofer to me!
Just who the fsck is this loon?
He surely needs some reality pills to all the BS he is talking about. Also, notice that MOST comments are deleted.
What a pathetic article. ZDNet is so terrible.
Look at all the comments.
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