Skype is opening its UI

[Chris Rees]

2009/11/3 Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net>:
> Chris Rees wrote:
>> 2009/11/2 Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
>>> pointless. " - Calven
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, keeping the protocol closed though. This means that Free clients
>> are still a long way off.
>>
>> Hopefully they'll see the error of their ways....
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
> I am trying to figure out what this means to me.  Does it mean that in
> the near future there will be versions that will work in every version
> of Ubuntu short term and long term as well?   That would be good news.
> I have friends using skype on windows and I have tried talking them into
> using open software and they always tell me they can't because Ekiga or
> what ever program I suggest is in Beta.   The very word Beta scares the
> heck out of them.   I keep xp on my machine just to run skype as it
> seems mostly a problem on the in between releases of Ubuntu.  I have not
> been able to get it to work properly on 9.04. This is likely due to my
> own ignorance but knowing that does not help much.
>
>
>                        Doug
>

There are few solid facts surrounding this, but what I have read
indicates that there'll be a binary library for IA-32 (x86) Linux at
least, and people can write their own frontend over this.

It'll still only be any good for the platforms that Skype deign to
support though.

Chris

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