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techcrunch.com - 17 days ago

Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

— techcrunch.com — Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5 . It was a perfect backup... plan in case all that IP litigation didn’t work out. – Gizmo5’s SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary P2P ... (more) Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

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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

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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, ...

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Skype For Linux To Be Open-Sourced "In the Nearest Future"
Slashdot — ... Mandriva RPM packages, Olivier Faurax got an answer which suggests that the Linux Skype client will be open-sourced. After asking for verification of whether that was the case, the tech support answer claimed it is going to happen, and that it's supposed to happen 'in the nearest future.' Now, this probably only means the client (the underlying protocol will probably be handled by a binary-only library), but even if that's the case, it seems like there is still reason to celebrate." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Skype plays footsie with open source
Open Source — As I wrote earlier today, when something goes open source we should ask how. So in contrast with Yahoo’s open sourcing of Traffic Server, let’s talk about Skype’s “open source” move. Yahoo was trying to build value from community. Skype is trying an embrace and extend strategy like that of Blackboard. To its credit Skype is being frank on that. Yes, there’s an open source version of Linux client being developed. This will be a part of larger offering, but we ...

Skype to open-source far too little
The Open Road — "Skype is going open source!" screamed the headlines over the weekend. If only. While Skype has acknowledged an interest in making its Linux client open-source, this may not mean very much in practice. I love Skype and use it daily for both instant messaging and voice calls. Its quality is superb and the Skype team continues to enrich Skype's functionality (now including the ability to screen-share and video chat). ...