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Skype For Linux Is Opening Up

Source: Mashable!

Nov 02, 2009

Summary

Recently, there have been some rumors swirling around about Skype becoming open source (for Linux), originating with a French blog.

The news has continued to spread, so Skype representatives have posted an entry on the Skype for Linux blog clarifying the situation. Sort of. Without going into too much detail, Skype says that an open source version of the Linux client is being developed. This is not the same thing as the Skype code itself becoming open source.

Skype for Linux has always lagged behind in development from its Windows and Mac counterparts and users of certain Linux distributions can have problems installing Skype in part because the client is rarely updated frequently enough to work with the latest kernel iterations. Moreover, because Skype is a proprietary application, it isn’t installed by default in most Linux distributions and finding it in repositories (even multi-verse repositories) can be difficult.

Skype makes a point to mention “an open source UI” — which makes us think that it will just be the GUI libraries that will be open sourced, no

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