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    SIP-based VOIP

Good. Let's get some competition to the adware SIP apps that are out now (I'm looking at you, SIPDroid).

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Are you saying the original open source Sipdroid (http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/) is adware? If so, why don't you remove the ad code and publish a clean version? You can, it's open source.

Or are you talking about the many clones that re-sell it in the Market--which they can do because it's open source?

Yes, it seems to be becoming an ad for PBXes, which is now on the very front page when you open it.

I am aware that it's open source, which is what makes it so frustrating that this has happened to it.

I hope that somebody does do as you suggest, but it won't be me, at least not in the next several months. That doesn't mean I'm happy with the current state of things.

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