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Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Sep 27 16:52:32 UTC 2006


On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
> And while they do, what? Stop using their programs and hope they'll still
> care about the Linux community to make a new version?

I guess its like other proprietary software that broke forever due to windows
upgrades and the like. Its part of the nature of proprietary software.

Most likely someone will soon reverse engineer skype entirely, at which point
two things will happen, one of which is that skye to standards compliant
gateways will appear, the other regretably is that millions of infected
voice-spam boxes will begin phoning everyone on the planet non-stop selling
viagra.

Alan




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