Skyping around
Not using Windoze does not prevent me from using some non Free Softwares sometimes, as long as they are good, useful, and GNU/Linux compatible.
Skype is one of the those programs, for it’s reliable, secure and has many features, besides, it doesn’t use some strange ports, only 80 and 443. However, I could not run Skype when using a connection through an authentication proxy server, and I still don’t know the reason.
According to the Skype team, Skype uses proxy parameters that exist on Opera preferences, or I should specify the environment variables like the following:
export http_proxy=http://user:passowrd@192.168.1.254:80
export http_proxy=http://user:passowrd@192.168.1.254:80
That did not work, and no one could get it running, according to posts at Skype forums.
Why don’t they release Skype source code for the public? I think that the developer community can make better then.
