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<DIV><FONT size=2>tha'ts clear, not sure it will be a good future for them 
so....</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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  style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=steveayre@gmail.com href="mailto:steveayre@gmail.com">Steven Ayre</A> 
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A 
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 03, 2011 11:08 
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Freeswitch-users] skype 
  reverse engineered</DIV>
  <DIV><BR></DIV>There's nothing open about about Skype. The protocol is 
  entirely closed and proprietary.<BR><BR>They offer an API to talk to the Skype 
  client from another program running on the same machine, but that's about it. 
  mod_skypopen works by running one or more copies of the official Skype client, 
  creating a virtual sound card and communicating with that from 
  FreeSWITCH.<BR><BR>-Steve<BR><BR><BR><BR>
  <DIV class=gmail_quote>On 3 June 2011 16:02, Madovsky <SPAN dir=ltr>&lt;<A 
  href="mailto:infos@madovsky.org">infos@madovsky.org</A>&gt;</SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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    <DIV><FONT size=2>some logical I don't understand.</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>why is it need reverse engineering if Skype had an open 
    source community until today ?</FONT></DIV>
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      <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
      <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B> <A 
      title=gopalakrishnan.an@gmail.com 
      href="mailto:gopalakrishnan.an@gmail.com" target=_blank>Gopal krishnan</A> 
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      <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A 
      title=freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org 
      href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org" 
      target=_blank>FreeSWITCH Users Help</A> </DIV>
      <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 03, 2011 9:54 
      AMS</DIV>
      <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Freeswitch-users] skype 
      reverse engineered</DIV>
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      <DIV class=h5><A 
      href="http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2011/06/03/skype-denounces-nefarious-reverse-engineering-40092982/" 
      target=_blank>http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2011/06/03/skype-denounces-nefarious-reverse-engineering-40092982/</A><BR><BR>
      <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:58 PM, mazilo <SPAN 
      dir=ltr>&lt;<A href="mailto:Nabble@slickdeals.endjunk.com" 
      target=_blank>Nabble@slickdeals.endjunk.com</A>&gt;</SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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        <DIV><BR>Steven Ayre wrote:<BR>&gt; On the more optimistic note I have 
        seen a good argument that there are<BR>&gt; enough hardware Skype phones 
        with Skype that they can't easily block older<BR>&gt; versions without 
        breaking a lot of devices.<BR></DIV>If Skype decides to block older 
        version of software, then all it needs is to<BR>furnish Skype Phone 
        hardware manufacturers with a new code to come up with a<BR>new firmware 
        to support new Skype version. Then, hackers will start to<BR>reversed 
        engineer on the new version. And, the cat/mouse chase 
        begins.<BR><BR>OTOH, it looks like the source was released to<BR><A 
        href="https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource/downloads" 
        target=_blank>https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource/downloads</A> 
        GitHUB &nbsp;on<BR>6/2/11. let's see how fast it will become a Linux 
        compilable<BR>package/plugin/module. I won't be surprised to see a 
        working<BR>mod_skype_re(versed engineered) soon if Anthony and/or FS 
        developers will<BR>decide to port the source into an FS 
        module.<BR><BR>-----<BR>FreeSWITCH hosted on a Seagate DockStar with 
        OpenWRT and ONLY consumes 3 Watts of electricity.<BR><FONT 
        color=#888888>--<BR>View this message in context: <A 
        href="http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/skype-reverse-engineered-tp6434578p6435062.html" 
        target=_blank>http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/skype-reverse-engineered-tp6434578p6435062.html</A><BR>Sent 
        from the freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<BR></FONT>
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