Could Skype Really Go Open Source

Skype is one of those applications available for Linux that I love to hate. It’s annoying because of its proprietary nature. So when it craps out, too bad. Yet at the same time, it remains the best VoIP app I have ever used.

But it appears that there may be a new day for this telephony software after all. I discovered that there is very serious talk of Skype going open source. Perhaps not with the protocol, but with the client itself. And to me, this makes a lot of sense as it has in the past been the client on Linux that has provided some frustration.

Do I care that Skype is not using something like SIP? No, if I wanted SIP, I would simply using one of the available SIP clients. To me, the news of the otherwise problematic client is going to be a good thing. After all, it took them all this time to get the Ubuntu client working reasonably well with pulseaudio.