Working Around Skype's Privacy Hole with LD_PRELOAD

I attempted to use Ekiga a few years ago. I remember having trouble getting it work, so I don't really have any hope in convincing anyone to use it when Skype is dead-simple.

And I mainly use Skype for its group text chat support (and the fact it still delivers messages to you that were sent while you were offline), which I don't remember if Ekiga does.