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Originally Posted by Scythe View Post
The originating group of developers are actually rather brilliant and came up with one of the fastest p2p communication protocols. Once the closed-source version of Skype opened up, it went a tad downhill with every kid releasing their own client. I don't recall specifically whether or not the n810 client is put out by Skype themselves or not. All I know is the official Skype client runs like a champ on most desktops/laptops without issue.
AFAICT, that's indeed all you know.

Skype is not open-source; it is still closed-source, and nobody but Skype makes clients. (Well, there was that incident where someone in China claimed to have reverse engineered it; I never heard of anything resulting though, and it's definitely not "opened up".)