Comments on: Skype For Linux Going (Almost) Open Source http://gigaom.com/2009/11/02/skype-open-source/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: OStatic Buffer Overflow… | google android os blog http://gigaom.com/2009/11/02/skype-open-source/#comment-229204 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:40:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=78091#comment-229204 [...] for Linux going (almost) open source. The UI will be open, but not the [...]

]]> By: Markus Goebel http://gigaom.com/2009/11/02/skype-open-source/#comment-229203 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:34:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=78091#comment-229203 How did Fonolo’s Shai Berger say? Developers want to “see Skype naked”! :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2009/11/02/skype-open-source/#comment-229202 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:30:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=78091#comment-229202 >> “An open source version of the client could lead to Skype being embedded in non-PC devices.”

Unless skype releases versions of its core closed-source library for the combination of CPU architectures/embedded OS (which is similar to what they’re running away from by open sourcing the Linux client’s UI), this is a pipe dream. Skype does have already an ARM-port but who knows whether they would make that available …
Distributing binary libraries in the fragmented embedded Linux ecosystem is a difficult venture …

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