@GamesMissed As someome who went from DOS to Linux, proprietary support was always questionable at best. There were earlier web cam chat programs such as Netmeet before, but Skype was the first truly universal and even the video calls worked beautifully. This was the sole reason I got to talk face to face with a lot of foreign friends for the first time after having known them for years.The sad thing is how everything is so fragmented now. To talk with all the people I need to stay in contact with I have to have like 4 different messengers. Each of them suck in their own unique way and they all are a pain for someone who'd have the completely impossible expectation to have a cellphone, desktop and laptop with the same messenger and have them all stay in sync without constant re-logins and other bullshit. Like Skype did.
