Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 19:54 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
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.
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There is already an API for accessing their backend which they are not open sourcing anyway. The part they are open sourcing is known to be complete crap.
I think all that is happening here is that they are abandoning linux development all together. Hopefully there will be some interesting stuff in the code they release so I can simply get an empathy or pidgin plugin and do away with the skype UI all together.