> What would it take to reverse engineer all the major voice/ video chat apps (Skype, Hangouts, FaceTime, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Signal etc), so that free code client software could connect with them?

I don't know the answer to that, but remember that the developers of these proprietary programs can change the protocol at any time in a manner which breaks libre implementations, and they may have an incentive to do that.

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