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		jolan on May 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype Elaborate how? It's been proven with sites like chatroulette. There are open source servers like red5: http://code.google.com/p/red5/

zheng on May 5, 2011 [–]

Chatroulette is not really an alternative to skype, but the link was interesting. I think the OP was looking for a similar video chat client.

I've personally never used skype, but for 1-1 video chatting, gchat works pretty well. I use it nightly.

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