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Well, if this does not say everything, I don’t know…

I already blogged about why I will switch away from Skype…. ironically, I would be more than willing to accept a downtime like it happened a few days back – every software has its bugs, and as long as they get fixed, what’s the deal? As long as you get a pay-back…

But the things that are explained in the above cited forums entry are just too scary – why should Skype read my /etc/passwd? My /etc/group? Come on, Skypies, isn’t there any rational explanation behind this?

In fact, doesn’t Skype belong to the eBay-group? What the … is going on here??

After yesterday’s post, I thought some more on my IM situation. I finally installed Miranda Instant Messenger on Windows – because Yahoo’s messenger would not install and the ICQ software is waaayyyy to resource-heavy. Now, I have one fine program for everything, and it’s even open source…

After the massive disruption over the weekend, I read several resources about Skype – and decided that this closed-source crap has nothing to do on my box. I therefore switched back to plain old IM – using my almost forgotten ICQ account (8624280) and Yahoo ID (tkhobbes, what else…)

Within Gentoo Linux, I use kopete (which, btw, needs the “yahoo” USE-flag in order to connect to Yahoo IM infrastructure), and on Windows, I just use ICQ and the Yahoo messenger.

Anyone who used to chat with me via Skype – go on, deinstall the software and use some IM… and if you REALLY need VoIP, use something like Gizmo.