@ thegands: Thanks for the links, will try them out and see if it helps at all. I was ranting more than anything in my last post cause I needed to blow off a little steam from the frustration of not being able to plug and play like I'm used to with VOIP (which my gizmo account has been with just about every other VOIP softphone I have tried aside from ekiga). You and I have similar intentions as far as VOIP and bluetooth go... especially for me since Android only supports such a function if I buy the more expensive phones (not Android's fault so much as the phone mfgs holding back on upgrades to sell newer phones, which is becoming MUCH more obvious with the Samsung Vibrant fiasco).
@maplesugarlover: Technically speaking, google isn't proprietary, it's just not a full VOIP solution. It's actually half (as it's dial-in only on the user's behalf... even if it calls you before it calls the number you're trying to call. I actually don't find that as a bad thing, as it's a free way to have one number across all your phones (VOIP, home and cell) because you can have calls ring on all types of phones. Gizmo isn't proprietary either, it's just old.
The company was bought by Google to further their VOIP ideals (which shows as things moved forward VERY quickly after they acquired Gizmo). Technically speaking, they assimilated the old company, but was curteous enough to not just cut off old users and allow them to still use their old gizmo5 (and grandcentral) user info as well as allow the gizmo website to stay up, even though it doesn't take new registrations. It could have been a LOT worse had they bought Gizmo and shut down everything that WAS Gizmo in the idea of furthering Google only. Of course, this is where I stand on the concept, it's not necessarily all facts (aside from what is obviously true about my statements).
But I wouldn't call Google proprietary... You could say that the Google voice technology in itself is closed source, but that's only partially true... the code to do what they do is already out there, if not in a "complete form" to mimic them, then pieces here and there that can be put together. And I think the only reason it's considered any level of closed is because they are not done working on it. And, like all things Google, when it comes to coding, they open the source when they feel they are done (enough) with it to be ready for public consumption.
But I digress. And I'd rather not hijack this thread with our conversation if you wish to continue. If you'd like, we can open a separate thread and discuss this further. This thread is meant for the praise and accolades of sebt3 for his Linphone accomplishment.
