Comments on: Wired profiles OLPC designer Yves Behar–and says $100 laptop will include Skype http://www.teleread.org/2006/07/23/wired-profiles-olpc-designer-yves-behar-and-says-laptop-will-include-skype/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:51:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Richard http://www.teleread.org/2006/07/23/wired-profiles-olpc-designer-yves-behar-and-says-laptop-will-include-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-70999 Richard Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:33:55 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5219#comment-70999 I hope Negroponte doesn't delay too long if he doesn't reach the magical 5 million order mark. 1 million units is still a pretty big number, and once the things actually start shipping, it might help more buyers "get off the fence". I hope Negroponte doesn’t delay too long if he doesn’t reach the magical 5 million order mark. 1 million units is still a pretty big number, and once the things actually start shipping, it might help more buyers “get off the fence”.

]]> By: Cerebus http://www.teleread.org/2006/07/23/wired-profiles-olpc-designer-yves-behar-and-says-laptop-will-include-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-70877 Cerebus Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:11:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5219#comment-70877 While technically Skype is VoIP, in my experience it's becoming more common to use it to refer to SIP softphones as distinct from Skype. Skype's P2P nature fits well with the networking concepts of the OLPC project, but as a closed source application it'd not the best fit with the open philosophy driving it. I do hope that OLPC will include a SIP phone, as that is the standard presence protocol, and there are plenty of open-source SIP phones to choose from. -- C While technically Skype is VoIP, in my experience it’s becoming more common to use it to refer to SIP softphones as distinct from Skype. Skype’s P2P nature fits well with the networking concepts of the OLPC project, but as a closed source application it’d not the best fit with the open philosophy driving it. I do hope that OLPC will include a SIP phone, as that is the standard presence protocol, and there are plenty of open-source SIP phones to choose from.

– C

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