Skype vs. Gizmo?

Lockergnomie Bryan Price felt compelled to respond to P2P Is Not The Devil!:

I agree totally. I just left comments and even blogged about somebody ranting against P2P, specifically VOIP. The reason listed was BECAUSE IT'S P2P! I called BS on it. And I did get an updated response that was more to the point, which was a specific issue to do with the EULA of Skype. Which had nothing to do with the part about it being P2P.
I'm not real happy with Skype, as I've seen it saturate my uplink without me having done anyting at all on Skype, which means that my computer was turned into a proxy/super node/whatever they want to call it. Without being able to opt out, nor being able to throttle it any way, I no longer run it. If it had not been causing issues on my end, I probably wouldn't have even caught it doing that. But when it's chewing up bandwidth from my machine, let alone the other machines on the network, that's when I do have a problem. I've seen the same thing with other P2P programs, but I've also seen the same thing with other non-P2P programs as well.
But to damn something just because it's P2P… That's wrong. Of course, they were talking about running VOIP on a server, which to me is pretty stupid. I don't run office applications on my servers either, so… I guess I really don't get that point.

And it seems that Gizmo may soon overtake Skype as the digital voice darling (although each app suffers from a clumsy UI).