Separation of connectivity from applications

Separation of connectivity from applications, that is what is not (on purpose) clear.

Skype is nothing else than an application using a common connectivity: customers' owned (or leased if you prefer) infrastructures.

That is the main difference with the usual Monopolist telephone system.

In the old system we used infrastructures that belonged to the Telecoms, and hardware's (telephones) that could belong to them or to the customer.
Thus the need to pay a "service", that is a "toll" to use their lines.

From this point of view you can clearly see how artificious and devious is the need to build a "Network in the Network".

VoIP is not a service and we do not need Skype service.
As we certainly better not need their application.

An OS, like an application, is worth if it is open, that is, if you can use it with any computer or any OS.
An application is worth nothing, and it is even dangerous, if you can use it just with one OS and in a certain environment.
That, if Universally spread, will create a Monopoly.
And a Monopoly is dangerous, as we can clearly see.

Besides, technology evolves rapidly and we need hardware and software that can easily adapt to progress, not proprietay tools that you can upgrade if and how and when...

Does everybody really want to take the risk of building a new monopoly and being obliged to pay for what is already free?

Patrizia