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And what irritates me the most is that we don't have any real alternative.

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Take a look at Wire. (http://wire.com) Good Skype alternative, and E2E encryption. I've been enjoying it quite a bit.

Closed source, so E2E has to be taken on faith.

Strictly better than Skype in some ways, but privacy can't be taken to be one of them.

According to the table here https://wire.com/privacy/ it's open source

Further to the point, here are their GitHub repos: https://github.com/wireapp

A-ha! Normally I'm used to these apps proclaiming their Free-ness on the front webpage, but it didn't jump out at here. Much thanks for the linK!

Good app. But none of my friends are using it.

You don't have a real phone anymore? Because that's what I'm using...

When consultants, partners, sales people, anyone really, send me a invitation to a Skype call, or a Google Hangout thingy, I always ask that they call me on my office phone. If that's not okay, then we'll just have to make due with email.

I'm not going to look for my headset, figure out how to use the right inputs and output, or sign up for a Google account because someone wants to call me. I have function telephone with a good wireless headset that just works.

Have you ever gotten a negative response to your "landline or bust" philosophy? It just seems a bit inflexible to me.

I do the same, but international phone calls are still rather impractical compared to Hangout / Skype-like tool of choice. And this is coming from a Linux user who doesn't get supported by many such tools :) At least most tools have a way to dial into them from a standard phone.

I use it the most, but that is not comparable. I am just saying that, because I had X situations where somebody told me "Add me on skype", and then i say look, no.

Google Hangouts?

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