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Anyone else wonder if this has anything to do with Skype's recent acquisition by Microsoft?

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The title on Slashdot was "Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk", but I thought that was too speculative for HN.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/24/2010222/Microsoft-Ki...

It's the first thing I thought of, and it could be a clue as to where MS may lead Skype. Are they going to come out with some killer VOIP app for Windows 7 mobiles phones that will cause us all to drop our iPhones & 'droids?

I hope they realize that the 'killer app' part of Skype is the amount of people using it. If they kill platforms, they lose people. If they lose people, they kill Skype.

Case in point: If they kill either the Mac client or the iOS client, they will lose me, and thus all my family. I hope they realize that.

Active Directory integration, mayhap?

I'm using Nimbuzz on my Android phone and it's fairly complete, bar Skype-support. I thought this was such a glaring omission, so I emailed them about it, wondering if it would be added.

The response I got was that they previously did have Skype-support, but that Skype had a policy/TOS which banned use trough other/competing IM/VoIP services and that they had sent Nimbuzz a cease and decist letter.

In the email response I got, I also got this link: http://blog.nimbuzz.com/2010/10/25/what-the-skypenimbuzz-bre...

So... If anything, Skype's hostility to open VoIP/SIP-based solutions started long before Microsoft's acquisition.

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