[AusNOG] Microsoft buys Skype

Julian DeMarchi julian at jdcomputers.com.au
Wed May 11 08:43:47 EST 2011


On 05/11/2011 07:44 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 01:19:11 +1000
> Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I guess thats finally the end of Windows NetMeeting and H.323......
>>
> 
> Closed document formats is bad enough, now you won't be
> able to call people if you don't want to or can't run skype. I think
> it'll be very unlikely that Microsoft will open the skype protocol for
> interoperability purposes.

Wonder if this will kill the Linux client for skype?

--julian



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