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    * Can you please recommend a cross-platform alternative?

I only know of Gnome-Empathy/KDE-Telepathy and Pidgin that utilize XMPP's voice and video features.

I've found this: http://octro.com/octrotalk.php which lacks a linux client, but appears to be solid and has a web-client too.

I've tried jitsi for some time, but it crashes from time to time. It stores your passwords in cleartext just like pidgin does.

http://yate.null.ro fully replaces Skype functionality (client and server), and works under mac/windows/linux.

Thanks a lot for sharing!

I hope they do more marketing and seo. I didn't find Yate, even after extended web searches.

Congrats to the developers, I'll definitely try this one out!