Corporate IT won’t run Linux desktops because of the ‘Skype attitude’

“Skype is not a small product or small company. Their VOIP
product is used by millions of people every day (it currently tells
me that 20,944,942 people are online), and carries more
international phone calls than AT&T. Skype’s attitude to Linux
desktop users is frankly disturbing. Take a look at the chart of
software issues for the Skype client:

“76% of issues in the JIRA database are new. Compare this with
the Windows client, where 21% of issues are new. It seems that
Skype is truly uninterested in their Linux user base, expending
minimal or no resources on it. Even if you take into account that
the Linux client is several steps back from the Windows version and
the development team is apparently working on a new version, the
number of open issues is still worrying (they claim to be in a late
Beta stage, but audio does not work with a large proportion of
modern OS versions and there is no timeline to fix it). So, Lesson
#1, DON’T INSTALL A BETA VERSION OF SKYPE IF YOU WANT TO CALL
PEOPLE!”

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