http://trypticon.org/articles/tag/skype?tag=skype en-us 40 If it ain't broke, break it. <p>Skype are going to release a toolkit for adding Skype support to other applications.</p> <p>They say, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/skype-opens-up-to-developers/2005/08/25/1124562958564.html" title="Sydney Morning Herald: Skype opens up to developers">&#8220;This would create the largest open instant messaging platform in the world.&#8221;</a></p> <p>I have some news for Skype. Giving out an API for a protocol which is still closed, does not make an open platform. If that were the case, then Windows would be an open platform as well.</p> <p>If they want to create the largest <em>open</em> instant messaging platform in the world, they might try joining one of the existing networks using protocols which are actually open, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP" title="Wikipedia: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol">XMPP</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol" title="Wikipedia: Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</a>, and perhaps focus less on these obvious attempts at one-upmanship over companies like Google who have the <a href="http://talk.google.com/" title="Google Talk">courage to introduce</a> truly open systems.</p> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:52:00 +1000 urn:uuid:086b592a781e345906bf007a5e4d8a92 Trejkaz http://trypticon.org/articles/2005/08/26/skype-will-not-be-open im skype jabber