On: Skype group video calling becomes free

[leorocky]

Skype is a service, not just a desktop client. It's like asking what the best open source alternative to Google search or Google maps might be.

[e1ven → leorocky]

Keep in mind, for most of Skype's history, the application ran peer-to-peer.. You could replicate that functionality with another app.

[Istof → leorocky]

Can you point me to Skype's API? I always thought that Skype was a closed protocol and that they don't want any other client applications using their service...

[rlu → Istof]

Messenger probably didn't want any other clients using their service, but that didn't stop the Pidgins and Trillians of the world... :)

[Istof → rlu]

Very true but Skype appears to present a much bigger problem for reverse engineering (I have only seen someone reverse engineer the texting part of Skype and not the video)