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Skype Is Working To Defeat the Reverse Engineering

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-luck-with-your-time-machine dept.

ndogg writes "Michael Larabel of Phoronix was emailed a response to the reverse engineering of the Skype protocol from the VP of Skype's PR company, who said that the reverse engineering was done for the use of spam/phishing, and that it's an infringement of their IP, and that they are working to defeat it."

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  1. Re:Skype on Linux by Bizzeh · · Score: 0, Troll

    they wrote the protocol, they wrote the application, they wrote their own audio and video codecs for a/v transmission. what does this have to do with linux, open source or anything outside of skype themselves. they own what they wrote, and its theirs to do with as they please and restrict how they see fit.

    loads of people on here bang on about freedom, but all that they want to do is re-apropriate freedom.. they want to take freedom away from those who already have it and give it to those who dont. seems hypocrytical to me

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