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Isn't this enough? You learn something and you'll probably get something useful out of it in the end, as well.

>But if you're sick of Skype for Linux and you realize that something like IRC would be good replacement

Huh? How do those even compare?

I know at least one organization that mainly used the group chat bit of Skype. In that case, one might think it possible to replace it with XMPP or IRC.

Read the first paragraph of the OP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here syndrome?

So as to have a pure wheel...