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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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<A title=steveayre@gmail.com href="mailto:steveayre@gmail.com">Steven Ayre</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><<A
href="mailto:infos@madovsky.org">infos@madovsky.org</A>></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; 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>Sent:</B> Friday, June 03, 2011 9:54
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Freeswitch-users] skype
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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><<A href="mailto:Nabble@slickdeals.endjunk.com"
target=_blank>Nabble@slickdeals.endjunk.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><BR>Steven Ayre wrote:<BR>> On the more optimistic note I have
seen a good argument that there are<BR>> enough hardware Skype phones
with Skype that they can't easily block older<BR>> 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 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
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