The Engadget Interview: Michael Robertson, CEO of SIPphone

Engadget have got a interesting interview with Michael Robertson, CEO of SIPphone up on their site. With eBay's purchase of Skype for ridiculous money, VoIP talk is very popular at the moment.

I have to agree that a standards based approach has got to be the way to go, not a proprietary approach like Skype. I don't want the VoIP space to end up as messy as IM with a number of different and incompatible protocols!

I've recently started looking at Free World Dialup to hook into the phone plugin on my myth box, and that is also SIP based.

One quote from the interview I found very interesting:

One of the things Skype does, which I think is petty sneaky, is to use your computer to route other people’s telephone calls

Although I can understand them doing this, especially given their Kazaa background, it doesn't sound like a good idea to me! Are there not security issues with that? And I don't think I want my CPU/bandwidth etc being used for other people calls! I can understand why Skype don't advertise that 'feature' heavily! :)

The VoIP space is definitely gonna be worth watching over the next year or so!