On Saturday, 14 September 2013 at 19:46:29 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Ugh, I've been convinced for some time that Skype needs to be a
*service*, not a "service plus god awful proprietary
application".
Maybe they already do, but they *really* need to allow other
people to
write Skype clients. Because they're clearly incompetent at it,
and
while their *service* is great (well, aside from willfully
handing all
your correspondence over to the government without any due
process
whatsoever) their own client applications are by far the biggest
liability to their own business (aside from the Google-like
lack of
respect for user privacy...but almost nobody cares about that
anyway,
so it's less of a threat to them than their own broken client
applications are.)
That /was/ possible, and our company is using the engine /naked/
on linux, but...
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12322/what-is-skypekit
Now MS is ending that game, or at least it seems so.
- Paolo
