Nov
02
2009
Skype open source? Reading the full announcement on Skype blog:
[...]Having an open source UI will help us [...]
So, it’s not Skype being open sourced, but it’s only the UI. The full sentence should be:
Having an open source UI will help us further our [Skype's] plans to monopolize the Voice Over IP market with a proprietary [...]
Tags: business, free software business, interoperability, market, open standards, skype, voip
Feb
12
2008
Some disappointing news today: Wengo stopped developing Wengophone, the VoIP SIP and XMPP/Jabber multiplatform client.’ ’ They announced it in the developer’s mailing list.
Update: the’ development of OpenWengo software has been taken over’ by an experienced Wengo programmer.
I wonder why Google isn’t contributing its gtalk code to free software projects like Kopete, Gaim or Adium: they use an [...]
Tags: business, floss, google, mobile, openstandard, voip