was: Anyone using Skype on FC11 ? Now SkypeGripe

[Roger]

On 08/30/2009 06:24 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 15:07 -0700, jack craig wrote:
>    
>> is the source open anywhere?
>>      
> It's a closed source application.  That, and the various discovered
> nasties (never mind the ones that haven't, yet, been discovered, because
> it's closed source), are why it's not well regarded here.
>
>    
Regardless, its what people use and Open Source doesn't communicate with 
it without pain.
Ekiga won't let me talk to the people I need to talk to.
I need alternatives and haven't got the time to search for them.

Skype charges 31 cents to dial and talk on a land line phone for as long 
as you like.
AOL which somehow arrived thru Ekiga/Aim charges 17 cents per minute, - 
Greed exemplified.

There is an app that supposedly lets Ekiga talk to skype but the cost 
for domestic -to phone- calls is not on their page.
I use only Open Source but for the next 3 years I need to talk to 
certain people so closed source becomes my grudging alternative.

<Rant - Gripe>
I am annoyed with skype and I haven't used it yet.
Why?
---Because it doesn't find 5 people with skype names in it's database 
who have used it for the last 5+ years.
These have long time skype addresses but which cannot be entered in to 
my contact list. This is crap.
---Because, while sound works I can't hear or talk to callers. This 
apparently because skype doesn't talk through alsa only through OSS -- 
yes I have alsa-oss installed according to Yum
---Because skype help is not helpful.
</Rant - Gripe>

Open source please.
Has anyone got skype working on Fedora 11?
I thought I did but was wrong.
Roger