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from the redheaded-stepchild dept.

El Reg reports [theregister.co.uk]

Linux users are piling on Microsoft after the long-neglected Skype client on the open-source OS suddenly lost the ability to join calls from other versions of the software.

Since pFebruary 22], users running the latest Linux build of Skype have been unable to chat to friends who are using Skype for OS X and Windows, it appears.

Fed up with this situation, Dutch student Nick Vernij and his pal Lem Severein decided to call attention to the issue by setting up a webpage [nickforall.nl]. Here, they take Microsoft to task for the latest headache to befall Skype for Linux, which was last updated in June 2014.

"We do understand that Linux is a competitor of Microsoft's Windows. But we do not understand why this results in a lack of support for Skype", the pair's online protest states.

"Linux is actively being used by power users who can not or do not want to use Windows because of a lack of features, and now, those (paying) users who used Skype for both Business and Private purposes are dropped by Skype."

What are Soylentils using in place of Skype? What's missing from that alternative?

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