https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ebay-should-opensource-skype/2008/10/26 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:27:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ebay-should-opensource-skype/2008/10/26/comment-page-1#comment-332577 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:27:12 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1984#comment-332577 […] mushin published a blog post. Michel Bauwens: eBay should opensource Skype (via Blog) […]

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ebay-should-opensource-skype/2008/10/26/comment-page-1#comment-326329 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:09:21 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1984#comment-326329 You missed the most important item. Ebay/Skype “does not own the p2p protocol or stack” as they license it from Joltid, Ltd. SO opensoucing Skype would leave you with nothing else than a GUI and a P2P library in which you will never see the code. Ebay/Skype doesn’t have access to this library either as the changes are all done by Joltid, Ltd. All of the P2P middleware work is done in house at Ebay/Skype, however fairly worthless without the P2P stack. Joltid, Ltd. goes to great lengths protecting their P2P library via code obfuscation, runtime debugger checks, etc..

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