Re:I will give some credit. Some negative too. (Score 0)

Skype is extremely over rated. They are doing nothing new. Big deal VOIP. People act like Skype created it. They didn't. The client itself is a PIG. It uses up way too much RAM and it uses too many resources. WTH, %30 CPU wyhen in a call? And it's strictly VOIP. Yeah they are encrypting the traffic so maybe that counts for some of the CPU usage. But I thought slashdotters were mostly AGAINST proprietary shit? Skypes protocol is proprietary so why all the hoopla? Stanaphone kicks the crap out of Skype ANY day of the week. Stanaphone coupled with XLite SIP client. Now thats somethign to rave about. Free incoming calls. Free REAL telephone numbers, Competive rates. Free FAX service, FREE confernece servers. Stanaphone uses SIP, and open protocol. XLite has an SDK for devs. This is a WIN WIN situation. And oh yeah XLite uses a whopping 7MB RAM on my machine and uses maybe 5 - 7 CPU. Call me when Skype actually does something interesting and new.