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Hello,

I am Efim Bushmanov skype reverse engineer with first publish of original work on reversing skype client at June of 2011. And i almost done work on create open source version of "Skype Network Compatible" client.

Some info about me: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/03/skype-protocol-c... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611299 http://github.com/skypeopensource/

And now I need some help from community. Thats why i do donate call.

Feel free to ask question about current state and any tech question. But, i will be prefer, if possible, not disclosure much, for reason ms-skype dont ruin my work too early by do some changing protocol again. But you feel free to ask some technical details or general question at all of how skype work.

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This is a great idea, and I bet you could raise a lot more than 3000! Why not just put this on indiegogo or kickstarter or some other similar trusted platform instead of asking people to just paypal you money? I figure many people would feel much more comfortable that way, and you'd probably get a bunch of publicity from just being on the site.

I don't understand the point of the semi-secrecy. There's almost certainly hundreds of MS employees on this site which means you've lost that advantage already, and anyway you're going to have the same problem after you release the software.

Patreon is also an option, too.

Are there public code hosting (gitlab?) in other countries, where the dmca does not apply? maybe something in Europe, where reverse engineering might be less strict?

DMCA is not main problem, for now.

"Why not just put this on indiegogo or kickstarter"

I just dont sure, which is will ok with this kind of projects...

I would hope that crowdtilt might take it.

I would suggest asking.

I'm going to echo the sentiment about PayPal: they are notorious for freezing accounts and never releasing funds. They've even done this to people trying to raise funds to help natural disaster victims.

It might help to have multiple popular avenues for donation.

Paypal has stolen hundreds of dollars for me, with no option for recourse.

The only thing worse than them taking my money was talking to the ignorant assholes on the phone about it.

Wow, you got an actual person on the phone? You got further than me when I tried to get back the $200 they stole from me due to "suspicious activity". I gave up trying to collect it after spending a bunch of time on it.

They did eventually return it, more than a year later, with no explanation. Just suddenly my account balance increased. No interest payments for the time it was stolen though.

Why not take them to small claims court?

Yeah. We can still talking about paypal policy, instead of topic.

Huh. Similar story, about the same amount of money.

They claimed suspicious activity, when it was in fact a client trying to pay me. Go figure.

Is there any reason you can't set up an Indiegogo campaign? It's going to look a lot more trustworthy than this page.

Because kind of this project.

I must re-iterate what others have said, I'd feel much safer donating money to you if this was on a crowd-funding service like kickstarter.

I know it's petty but I'm telling you this for your own sake.

I dont sure, if will be ok to host some kind of this project.

I -might- be interested but I refuse to work with paypal.

Edit: Unfortunately, I also don't really do bitcoin and have never heard of the other two options.

Cash and credit card?

I suppose you could always try offering him some chickens or something?

:))

Chicken or pork are also appreciated!

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