Originally posted by Michael
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Riiiight. They Care about user experience...
I considered actually PAYING for skype once as my main phone. You know what made me change my mind? The fact that their Linux client exposes ALL of your personal details - EVEN IF YOU SETUP YOUR PRIVACY!!
This disregard for protecting MY personal details from others I don't know, and having a "shell" of an interface that LOOKS good, but doesn't work is why I will NEVER use their service as long as they force me to use their utterly BROKEN client.
And I was actually thinking about subscribing to them when I found out about the reverse engineered client that WOULD respect my privacy.
If they're TRYING to lose potential customers, they are doing a damn fine job.
F**K them!!! They don't know how to treat subscribers - let alone get new ones!!!
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Postboth the developer and the VP in this situation is wrong and an idiot.
the person who reverse engineered skype was taking a pretty big risk of getting caught. telling people he's made progress is even worse of an idea, especially if he didn't release source code. seriously, what was he thinking? did he honestly think that the skype people were just going to simply not do anything about this?
as for skype, contacting michael is not going to do ANYTHING about this problem - he (probably) doesn't personally know the developer and he isn't developing it himself. all it does is make them look like a bunch of douchebags when michael is just a reporter. as much as i like hearing that they're putting a lot of effort into the experience, michael is right in the fact that maybe if the skype linux client were better, people wouldn't feel a need to hack it. however...
i don't think the purpose of the reverse engineering was intended solely to make up for the lack of features that the windows version has. the linux client isn't nearly as updated but imo, it still has all the important features.
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Originally posted by FireBurn View PostI'm pretty sure there is nothing illegal about reverse engineering a protocol otherwise the Samba project would be in a lot of trouble
fyi, MS actually never won against the lindows case, but the devs were basically told to change the name, probably because the court was tired of hearing MS bitch and moan. today, paying for linspire is to help cover their court costs.
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It was to be expected that they were going to attack the developer. They didn't keep it closed so that one day one guy could hack his way through it. Something that's closed should remain closed against third-party access.
I understand why they would keep the protocol closed, namely it helps defending against the ever increasing amount of spam via IM software. So reverse-engineering the protocol and releasing the source code has both a positive ad negative side.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Postboth the developer and the VP in this situation is wrong and an idiot.
the person who reverse engineered skype was taking a pretty big risk of getting caught. telling people he's made progress is even worse of an idea, especially if he didn't release source code. seriously, what was he thinking? did he honestly think that the skype people were just going to simply not do anything about this?
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Originally posted by Michael View PostI just received another email from them... Thanking me for posting this article and their response... I guess they don't realize Phoronix supports Linux and open-source...
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostI wish people would wake up. This skype crap needs to die already. There are FAR superior OPEN alternatives to this piece of MS TRASH.
But I appreciate the sense of humour. Attention everybody, from now on, in linux circles, Skype is to be tagged as a piece of Microsoft trash...
Having said this, I would love the reverse engineering efforts to fully achieve their goals.
PS. And what is it about Skype's linux client? Am I the lucky one for whom it works or what?Last edited by yotambien; 03 June 2011, 02:26 PM.
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