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Dumb Pipes — Why Skype Treads Carefully With Open Source
eu.techcrunch.com - 23 days ago
Dumb Pipes — Why Skype Treads Carefully With Open Source
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Skype’s Linux version will soon become open source software – and maybe run on every smartphone, TV set-top box or other gadget powered by the free operating system. It could also become part of multi-protocol messengers like Pidgin or eBuddy or Meebo. Or at least that was the ...
share.skype.com - 24 days ago
Skype open source
— share.skype.com — Hopefully this will make headless Skype on Linux possible. This has been too long in development on... your end. It seriously limits how Skype is used, especially on the chat front. Without at least a headless client and later on server API's, it's ... (more) Skype open source

Comments vote down GigaOM Network found this 24 days agofound this
Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%
techcrunch.com - 20 days ago
Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%
— techcrunch.com — eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype , clearing... the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners , Andreessen Horowitz and ... (more) Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, ...

Comments vote down Technologizer found this 20 days agofound this
I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to Buy Three Percent More and Two Board Seats
kara.allthingsd.com - 21 days ago
I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to ...
— kara.allthingsd.com — According to several sources close to the situation, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely... to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. While the massive agreement is not yet officially signed–which will settle ... (more) I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype ...

Comments vote down Inc.com found this 21 days agofound this

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Open Source:  Skype plays footsie with open source

The Open Road:  Skype to open-source far too little

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Skype plays footsie with open source
Open Source — ... But telephony is a low-bandwidth application. Its value going forward shouldn’t be voice as-such, but the integration of voice with other computer applications. In that world being wholly proprietary is a disadvantage. But opening up completely may be seen as giving away the goose that lays golden eggs. ...

Skype to open-source far too little
The Open Road — ... But, again, this is probably the biggest reason to yawn at the news of a Linux-based Skype GUI being open-sourced. The magic of Skype is not in the client. It's in the cloud/server, and that's remaining closed because, as TechCrunch posits, Skype doesn't want its competitors to free-ride on its services. ...

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