[1]For those of us that use Skype we have enjoyed a service that has opened the doors of communication to countries and neighbors alike. Being able to chat, talk, or video chat from PC to PC has been wonderful! There are plenty of programs that do this as well (i.e. iChat, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Google Talk), what is really exciting is that Skype will be Open Sourced. Projects like Gizmo tried this but never took hold like Skype. Since eBay has released it's grips on Skype there is open skys of opportunity and this is certainly an amazing step forward for the FOSS community. It should be very interesting to see what creative FOSS developers will do with this, I am sure we will see multiperson video conference soon (something sorely missing in the current version).
SOURE: http://linuxcrunch.com/content/skype-will-be-open-source [2]