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Re:Hackers Build a Skype That’s Not Controlled by Microsoft by tagrun on Monday September 01, 2014 @02:33PM (#8254136)
Sounds like either they're not aware of Retroshare (uses Qt for GUI), or they think developing in C++ is too much of a hurdle.

It's peer-to-peer, uses web-of-trust, completely encrypted, already has chat/mail/"www"/voice chat/file sharing/etc. Still missing the video chat plug-in though, but it's on the to-do list.

Re:Hackers Build a Skype That’s Not Controlled by Microsoft by dublinben on Monday September 01, 2014 @07:28PM (#8255094)
I'm more surprised there is no mention of Jitsi, a project that has been around for years. Tox is barely usable across multiple platforms.