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Skype goes open source: Flawless victory
- bking 14y agoThat is what you get for putting in backdoors for big brother.
- huhtenberg 14y agoIt's obvious, but I'll just say for the record - that's not open source, they just de-obfuscated the binaries. Which is a big deal, but still a far cry from having an open-source replacement.
- noahc 14y agoI took the "open source" to be sarcastic, not an actual comment on the licensing structure.
- seppo0010 14y agoOn joindiaspora, pressing cmd+left (which is usually the browser "back") leaves me in the same page. Which is more strange is that pressing the back button it works properly.
- cleverjake 14y agothats because they are capturing the arrow keys without checking for simultaneous modifier keys.
- taylorfausak 14y agoA more reliable way to navigate with the keyboard is ⌘+{ (back) and ⌘+} (forward). The chords ⌘+← and ⌘+→ can be captured by text input, JavaScript, or Flash.
- seppo0010 14y agoNice... also cmd+shift+{ and cmd+shift+} works for changing tabs.
- ybother 14y agoI always assumed Skype used the client for tapping, considering how buggy it was.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoHasn't this been on HN more than once? Yes, it has. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+http%3A%2F%2Fskype-open-source.blogspot.ch%2F http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+h... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753155 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753155 and http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skypeopensource http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skypeopensource We've been over this (re: wiretapping). Skype uses supernodes for STUN traversal and UDP hole punching, otherwise communication is peer to peer. Even if this were true, it would only apply to traffic that Skype is TURN tunneling, which is very minimal and can be avoided by one client simply not having a corporate, full-cone NAT router. It's really hard to take this seriously when it's obviously not a good faith use of the phrase "open source" and it's littered with tags like "#OWS", etc. If you want open source, encrypted voice communication, it's easy to find. edit: To cover all bases, if there is some implication of collaboration between Skype and the government, there is still the potential that the US could be listening in on peer to peer communications. I don't find the Azure/Super-nodes to be evidence of that.
- mirsadm 14y agoIt's hard to take anybody seriously when they write "M$". Reminds me of people still using the "Windows crashes" argument as a reason to use Linux.
- aeurielesn 14y agoThat's because Windows does crash and there's nothing you can't do about it. Truth be told. P.S. I agree with your M$ comment tho.
- Produce 14y agoHow do they not deserve money to be a part of their name when they do things like this: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132935-microsoft-tweaking-skype-to-facilitate-wiretapping http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132935-microsoft-tweaki... M$ is appropriate.
- kevin_morrill 14y agoHey they're one of the most profitable companies in the world. I think they should wear that badge with pride.
- mikerice 14y agoThis is stolen, not open source.
- neutronicus 14y agoI get the "Aw, Snap!" splash page when I visit this, or anything else on joindiaspora.com, in Chrome. The Diaspora folks may want to look into that.
- adrianpike 14y agoChrome 20.0.1132.47 here, working fine.
- dudeanon842 14y agoBig deal. The advantage skype has over countless other voip programs / SIP clients (many of them open source) is their userbase, not a superior product.