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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RE[2]: I don't get your whining
by RshPL on Wed 4th Nov 2009 14:14
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I suppose my comment wasn't geared towards the article itself but rather the general flavour of comments under this article. I'm all for free/(open source) software and I prefer it to any closed software when it delivers the functionality I need (none delivers the functionality of Skype), but reading through comments under this news one could gather what a terrible piece of software the Linux Skype client is, while I think it doesn't do much justice to it.
RE[3]: I don't get your whining
by WereCatf on Wed 4th Nov 2009 14:34
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Who said anything about stability? Did the article say "We want better stability, so we're open sourcing the client UI?" No.
Stability, reliability, etc. may be incidental side effects of having many eyeballs debugging code, but it wont necessarily happen. And, importantly, that's not why we like open source. It's as much about freedom as it is about better software!
Not just FSF-style software Freedom, either. The ability to choose a desktop-integrated client is an example.
"Works for me and doesn't crash" isn't the ultimate justification for the existence of a piece of software!