Why eBay Should Open-Source Skype Oct 9, 2008, 18 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1778 reads) (Other stories by Glyn Moody)
"Many of us in the free software world found it hard to suppress a wry smile when reading this: for this is precisely the problem you would expect with closed-source software, hidden within its impenetrable black box. Had Skype been open source, it would have been much harder to hide code that monitored users' conversations.
"So here's a thought for eBay: why not open-source Skype and its protocols?"