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Skype Officially Available For Android

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

After a lot of speculation, Arvisp writes "Skype has released an official Android version. It allows calling via 3G and WiFi." One step closer to the carriers being just... carriers.

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  1. Re:So we like open source, but not open protocols? by forkazoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do the slashdot crowd rally against closed and proprietary data formats like MS Word documents, but not closed and proprietary VoIP protocols?

    It's not that we love closed protocols. We don't. We simply hate the phone company more.

  2. Re:So we like open source, but not open protocols? by Duradin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Skype is a lot like Flash when it comes to slashbots.

    Before Apple said "no Flash on our devices" Flash was absolutely worthless and evil.

    As soon as Apple said no Flash on their devices Flash was a saint in the process of being martyred by evil tech-heathens.

    So in any other context (or previous threads) Skype is the epitome of the corruptness and wastefulness (OMG it uses bandwidth even when you're not talking!!!) of closed source. Now that it is available to the droidbois it is the symbol of freedom, sticking to the (telecom) man.