GNU Free Call Announced | Linux Today

GNU Free Call Announced

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 15, 2011

“GNU Free Call is a new project to develop and deploy secure
self-organized communication services worldwide for private use and
for public administration. We use the open standard SIP protocol
and GNU SIP Witch to create secured peer-to-peer mesh calling
networks, and we welcome all participation in our effort.

“Who
Haakon Eriksen – Project Coordinator –
haakon.eriksen@far.no

“David Sugar – Project Architect – dyfet@gnu.org

“What
Our goal is to make GNU Free Call ubiquitous in a manner and level
of usability similar to Skype, that is, usable on all platforms,
and directly by the general public for all manner of secure
communication between known and anonymous parties, but without
requiring a central service provider to register with”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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