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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2009-03-13
Really, is it really that surprising?
Business works by maximizing the possible income and keeping the technology secret is one way to do this.
You really can't blame them if there is no real Skype competition and helping the competition would not be wise from their standpoint.
And if Skype is supposedly crap, why haven't anyone made a competing product to this time? I still can't do voice/video calls with my PSI. It's XMPP that's useless for business needs, the only thing it does well is text messages which have been working perfectly fine with IRC *decades* ago.