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sly010 on Dec 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wire – Modern Communications Network

If Skype allowed that (without having to run the original client), they wouldn't make any money.

On a related note, is there any multi network app that supports video?

hjst on Dec 3, 2014 [–]

> On a related note, is there any multi network app that supports video?

Yes, both Pidgin and Empathy support voice and video calling via XMPP. I suspect you'd need to use a "standard" XMPP server though - it wouldn't work over gtalk or facebook chat for instance.

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