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I am rather thankful that you did this and at the same time surprised |
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Microsoft |
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decided to work on a dedicated Skype client for Linux. |
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Since the GNU/Linux community is responsive, we might make considerable |
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contribution to troubleshooting the client. I will probably give it a go to |
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see how |
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it fairs against google-talkplugin. |
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Regards, |
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Andy |
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On 4 October 2016 at 23:12, Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages |
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> * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype |
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> * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version |
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> There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split |
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> would be cleaner. |
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> Blame microsoft for giving their current version a lower number than the |
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> classic one. |
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