While stroking their neckbeards and drinking Mountain Dew? There are free services for voice, video and text chat. What is more difficult, politically speakin

While stroking their neckbeards and drinking Mountain Dew? There are free services for voice, video and text chat. What is more difficult, politically speaking, is producing a free client for the Skype protocol. Clean-room reverse-engineering the protocol and producing a client that uses it without Microsoft raining down upon the project is not just a technical problem (or of not switching to cake).