Skype goes open source: Flawless victory

It's obvious, but I'll just say for the record - that's not open source, they just de-obfuscated the binaries. Which is a big deal, but still a far cry from having an open-source replacement.

It's hard to take anybody seriously when they write "M$". Reminds me of people still using the "Windows crashes" argument as a reason to use Linux.

That is what you get for putting in backdoors for big brother.

On joindiaspora, pressing cmd+left (which is usually the browser "back") leaves me in the same page. Which is more strange is that pressing the back button it works properly.

I get the "Aw, Snap!" splash page when I visit this, or anything else on joindiaspora.com, in Chrome. The Diaspora folks may want to look into that.

This is stolen, not open source.

Hasn't this been on HN more than once? Yes, it has. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+h...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753155

and http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skypeopensource

We've been over this (re: wiretapping). Skype uses supernodes for STUN traversal and UDP hole punching, otherwise communication is peer to peer. Even if this were true, it would only apply to traffic that Skype is TURN tunneling, which is very minimal and can be avoided by one client simply not having a corporate, full-cone NAT router.

It's really hard to take this seriously when it's obviously not a good faith use of the phrase "open source" and it's littered with tags like "#OWS", etc.

If you want open source, encrypted voice communication, it's easy to find.

edit: To cover all bases, if there is some implication of collaboration between Skype and the government, there is still the potential that the US could be listening in on peer to peer communications. I don't find the Azure/Super-nodes to be evidence of that.