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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Microsoft vows to stop all patent lawsuites and threats
against Linux (Chris)
2. Re: Where are people going / planning on going before the
wheels fully come off Skype? (Chris)
3. Re: Microsoft vows to stop all patent lawsuites and threats
against Linux (Ioan Loosley)
4. Re: Microsoft vows to stop all patent lawsuites and threats
against Linux (Sebastian)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 21:22:10 +0100
From: Chris <cshorler@googlemail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Microsoft vows to stop all patent lawsuites and
threats against Linux
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On 1 April 2016 15:07:44 BST, Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
>Microsoft Vows to Stop All Patent Law suites and Threats Against Linux,
>
>plus to drop Existing Secret Settlements and NDAs:
>http://techrights.org/2016/03/31/satya-nadella-on-swpats/
>
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Was this posted before 12? Lol



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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 21:35:50 +0100
From: Chris <cshorler@googlemail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Ioan Loosley <legit.ioangogo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Where are people going / planning on going
before the wheels fully come off Skype?
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On 1 April 2016 20:35:54 BST, Ioan Loosley <legit.ioangogo@gmail.com> wrote:
>Jisti meet is a nice one that is based on webrtc meaning you just share
>a
>link in most cases
>
>On 1 April 2016 at 19:48, Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Dear collected wisdom,
>>
>> I have to use Skype for a number of work related things. The quality
>of
>> calls and reliability of the service has been dropping over the past
>> couple of years and it's now getting to the unusable stage often
>enough
>> to persuade people to move on-mass to something new. Microsoft's
>> (unsurprising) lack of interest in the Linux client doesn't help
>either.
>> Anyway, I figure other people here may have had similar experiences,
>so
>> where do we suggest people go?
>>
>> Requirements:
>>
>> *. Actually fucking works. Reliably. And when it doesn't there is
>at
>> least some kind of diagnostics on why not.
>>
>> *. Open protocol and Free Software clients for at least Linux.
>Clients
>> that don't suck massively for Windows, Mac, maybe the obvious phones.
>>
>> *. Two person and multi-party text and voice. Video ... does anyone
>> actually use it, productively, for anything other than porn?
>>
>> *. Secure against external attackers and hostile (or at least greedy
>and
>> self-interested) server providers.
>>
>> *. Don't have to sign-up for everything + dog just to use.
>>
>> I mean, it's 2016, is this really too much to ask?
>>
>> Once this gets out of beta:
>>
>> https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/
>>
>> then I suspect it is the right answer but ... are there any others?
>I'm
>> aware of:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software
>>
>> but I'm more interested in people's experience / views as that one
>> cannot reliably find by searching the net.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Martin
>>
>>
>>
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When we did Linux Live we also put Jitsi into each of the builds... It was improving daily at the time, there were also investigation into the various messaging infrastructures that were emerging on KDE and Gnome.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:28:00 +0100
From: Ioan Loosley <legit.ioangogo@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Microsoft vows to stop all patent lawsuites and
threats against Linux
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it was on the 31 of march according to the url

On 1 April 2016 at 21:22, Chris <cshorler@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 1 April 2016 15:07:44 BST, Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
> >Microsoft Vows to Stop All Patent Law suites and Threats Against Linux,
> >
> >plus to drop Existing Secret Settlements and NDAs:
> >http://techrights.org/2016/03/31/satya-nadella-on-swpats/
> >
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> Was this posted before 12? Lol
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 00:41:15 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Microsoft vows to stop all patent lawsuites and
threats against Linux
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On 01/04/16 21:22, Chris wrote:
> On 1 April 2016 15:07:44 BST, Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
>> Microsoft Vows to Stop All Patent Law suites and Threats Against Linux,
>>
>> plus to drop Existing Secret Settlements and NDAs:
>> http://techrights.org/2016/03/31/satya-nadella-on-swpats/
>>
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> Was this posted before 12? Lol
The original blog post definitely was ,even the day before April 1st by
the looks of it. My email no that was after 12 this afternoon, but my
intention wasn't to try and fool anyone with that , but rather share a
good April fools joke I had come across :), so no fool of the year here
:). Plus I wasn't even awake properly again until after 12, and I
thought of the fool of the year thing even before sending my email. I
think the before 12 thing is a little out dated as well for actual April
fools jokes, (which again I wasn't doing) since a lot of people go to
bed late these days and on certain days wake up again properly quite
late as well.
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