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Re:Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger pr... by douche on Monday June 15, 2015 @07:32AM (#9718676)
Skype is actually not that complicated a protocol - at least on the enterprise side. It is basically just straight SIP messaging, with a few Microsoft-specific extensions.
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Re:Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger pr... by MichaelGG on Monday June 15, 2015 @08:58AM (#9718996)
Do you mean "Skype for Business" aka Lync? Cause that's really totally unrelated to Skype except for questionable branding. Skype used a heavily obfuscated system, with all sorts of anti-reversing technology.

And the protocol flowchart for Lync is complicated as all hell, even with SIP at the core. (More complicated than SIP usually is.)

I wonder if Skype itself falls under MS's legal obligations to publish protocol descriptions.

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Re:Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger pr... by throwaway2048 on Monday June 15, 2015 @08:42AM (#9718930)
"enterprise skype" is just a renamed microsoft lync and has nothing to do with the real skype besides branding nonsense.
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