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Ekiga awarded in Soissons

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2006-12-04 05:11. Ekiga
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Ekiga won last week one of the Free Software Awards in Soissons (France). Ekiga was nominated in the "Multimedia" category.

The jury appreciated the quality of the project and the fact that it was original (GnomeMeeting was the first Open Source GUI to support VoIP together with video and the H.323 standard on GNU/Linux in 2001). It is now the first Open Source application to support multiple major VoIP protocols at the same time, again with audio and video.

It is a very good news for that mature and inovative GNOME project. That prize rewards the developers for their hard work during the last 6 years.

No <X>Meeting, though?

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Sun, 2006-12-17 22:32.

It's a good thing that GnomeMeeting changed their name. At this point it has become a completely useless programme to me. Way back when GnomeMeeting started it was a Linux client for NetMeeting sessions. Now they have changed it so much, removed the only functionality that makes it even vaguely useful to me, etc.

Ultimately, I don't even know just *why* they claim Ekiga has *ANY* relation to GnomeMeeting. It's functionality is completely different, and it does none of what it used to do. It's a different app: why not just be honest about it and say you've *ABANDONED* the old one and started a completely different project?

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