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Linux Skype Client To Go Open Source!
« on: 2009.11.04, 05:20:52 »
Linux Skype Client To Go Open Source

Linked by Thom Holwerda on osnews.com, 3rd Nov 2009 19:54 UTC, submitted by poundsmack

Internet & Networking - We waited a little while with this news, because we wanted official confirmation from Skype before jumping on the internet bandwagon. It's official now, so here we go: Skype has announced that it will release its Linux client as open source. A little late, but welcome nonetheless.

Could this be used for an OS/2 port?

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Re: Linux Skype Client To Go Open Source!
« Reply #1 on: 2009.11.04, 05:31:01 »
If you want to reference an article, you can include a URL

http://www.osnews.com/story/22430/Linux_Skype_Client_To_Go_Open_Source

Here is a part of what the article says

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Anyone who has ever had to misfortune of having to deal with the Linux version of the Skype client knows that is not even remotely close, feature-wise and quality-wise, to the Mac OS X and Windows versions of this little oft-used program. The program is still in beta, and stuck at version 2.x - whereas the Windows world is already in the 4.x range.

Outdated, at best. Useless, at worst.

It seems that the guys at Skype have realised this as well, as they have announced that the Skype client for Linux will be released as open source. This would theoretically make it possible for Skype to be included in Linux distributions, too.

Maybe we could port this to OS/2, after the Linux guys finish working on it.
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Re: Linux Skype Client To Go Open Source!
« Reply #2 on: 2009.11.04, 09:59:02 »
Guys,

sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but
http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html
states that this is for the UI only, _not_ the protocol part... :(

FWIW, I posted this on os2news.com yesterday but it didn't make it into all subscribed sites somehow...

Cheers,
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