This unauthorized use of our application for malicious activities like spamming/phishing infringes on Skype's intellectual property.
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clean room reimplementation would be the right thing to do, law permits that.
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There are two words as a response to this oversized reaction from Skype representatives:- Assholes!
- Boycott!
I'll shamelessly advertise their wonderful attitude to all people I know and promote freedom instead. I've already (and for long) ditched Skype and intend to show people around me the great free software we have instead.
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Originally posted by yoshi314 View Postskype has solid legal basis for making action over this.
because, apparently protocol was not really reverse engineered, but the executable was processed with disasseblers and debuggers. that makes it illegal.
a clean room reimplementation would be the right thing to do, law permits that.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Posti never said anything about it being illegal, its just MS is notorious for suing people who threaten their competition, no matter how much or how little they are likely to win and MS owns skype.
So this reaction is entirely Skype's.
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Originally posted by JanC View PostMicrosoft does NOT own Skype. Microsoft & Skype signed an agreement that the former will buy the later if the shareholders of both companies and the relevant government authorities that care about market regulation (at least in the EU & the US) give their permission.
So this reaction is entirely Skype's.
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Originally posted by 89c51 View Posti would prefer the resources that went into reverse engineering skype to have been dedicated in improving xmpp+audio/video plus doing more to make it more known.
I completely agree. I stopped using all of the closed IM protocols (unless SMS counts) a while ago. I only use XMPP and IRC. I try to get all of my family and friends to use gmail and use google chat with an open source multi-protocol client like pidgin. I hope to do my part increase XMPP's market share and hopefully wean people off of the others.
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Originally posted by Prescience500 View PostI completely agree. I stopped using all of the closed IM protocols (unless SMS counts) a while ago. I only use XMPP and IRC. I try to get all of my family and friends to use gmail and use google chat with an open source multi-protocol client like pidgin. I hope to do my part increase XMPP's market share and hopefully wean people off of the others.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Postfyi, 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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