Internet phone company plans to open-source only the graphical user interface for its Linux client, which could burn the company's bridges with the open-source community. Matt Asay is a veteran ...

The blogosphere was all a-twitter yesterday when rumors surfaced that Skype, the popular internet telephony application, would be released as open source "in the nearest future". It turns out that ...

When rumors began circulating that Facebook was eyeing Skype for potential purchase, more than a few observers began to get nervous. Now that Microsoft has bought the VoIP leader, the shock in many ...

As I wrote earlier today, when something goes open source we should ask how. So in contrast with Yahoo's open sourcing of Traffic Server, let's talk about Skype's "open source" move. Yahoo was trying ...

Most people love Skype, the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) program, but Linux users have a love/hate relationship with it. Yes, Skype will run on some versions of Linux, but it doesn’t run on all ...

Over 100 Internet advocates, journalists and other organization members penned an open letter to Microsoft today, urging the Redmond software giant to be more transparent with its Skype software. In ...

Skype’s Linux version will soon become open source software – and maybe run on every smartphone, TV set-top box or other gadget powered by the free operating system. It could also become part of multi ...

How private is Skype? We don’t know, and that’s a serious problem. This is the message put forth in an “Open Letter to Skype,” which was published today and carries the signatures of more than 100 ...