SkypeKit also needs a skypekit-client program to be running in the background, so it puts us in the same boat as using the Skype API. Skype API Plugin for Pidgin/libpurple/Adium. The SkypeKit SDK is not licensed to be used in any open-source software, such as Adium and so needs to be rewritten. For example, the messages can be delivered to the Adium chat client without your control. I could no longer start/stop Adium or Skype and had to throw both away. We don't accept piggybacking on the official client as a substitute. Today I decided to install the Skype plugin and it somehow it made everything blow up. Using the Skype API, as the Skype Plugin does, means that Skype must be running. It will take a long time and won't happen at all unless someone chooses to take interest in it and dedicate significant time to the effort. Protocols like OSCAR (which AIM and ICQ are based on) and MSN have already been reverse-engineered, but they're much older than Skype, and reverse-engineering is hard. Keep in mind that Skype is a proprietary, closed protocol, so it must be reverse-engineered before third-party clients like Pidgin and Adium can use it. Until it does Adium most likely won't, either. The library that we use to support most protocols, libpurple, doesn't support Skype at all right now, not even for chat. Why does Adium not officially support Skype? By the nature of the Skype API, it requires that the Skype program be installed and running. However, there is an unofficial third-party Skype Plugin which allows Adium to use the Skype API to display your Skype contacts within Adium and let you chat with them via text-based instant messaging. Text messages also became free, so for instant comms you just texted people. Skype started charging and since everyone was on Facebook, everyone moved to Facebook messenger. Adium does not natively (i.e., without a plugin) support Skype. I really miss Adium ( which was based on Pidgins libpurple.
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