Reminder to self: If a telcom company is involved, a customer pricing bait-and-switch is never very far away.
Expounding a bit further, the pricing they are proposing measures usage in 'millions of messages'. Nothing like an arbitrary large metric to confuse consumers about their actual potential usage. How many 'signalling messages' did you use last month fellow consumer?
The pricing structure is obviously aimed at enterprises. The free level includes 7 days of non-stop streaming a month. I don't know anybody who literally spends a quarter of their time on video chat.
No, not evil. Disingenuous. The O/S project is used as a marketing ploy for the service. There's nothing wrong with it, Google does this all the time, just as many other companies. But if you re-read the press release it really stresses the "we are just like Mozilla" point. They are trying to piggy-back on Mozilla's reputation and borrow its established goodwill as a non-profit, all the while being a commercial entity and having a distinctly different set of interest.
I might be blind, but I thought it was only a open API to connect to their services. One couldn't run this without utilizing their servers and services. http://vimeo.com/48983878 reads like this too, and I can't find out how to setup an open tok media server, either.