 Permalink for comment 476086 RE[3]: u really dont get it! by
Neolander on Sun 5th Jun 2011 09:11 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: u
really dont get it!" Member since:  Look at the service - not
just the software. Skype is video chat. Skype can connect to
PSTN phones. Skype is not a part of something else. It is SKYPE.
Alright, so far so good.  Reverse engineering Skype will achieve
nothing positive because the protocol is one part of the whole
entity that is Skype. In a nutshell, it's been a complete waste
of time from which nothing positive will come.  Wrong. Again,
let's talk about WLM clones. You want to communicate with WLM
users (a service), but you use an operating system that's either
not properly supported by Microsoft or not supported at all (in
short, anything but Windows and J2ME). In that case, having a
WLM clone allows users of other platforms to communicate using
the WLM service with other persons using the WLM service.  Same
with Skype.  People use Skype because it provides the service
they want and n