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Pidgin is great. I have all my services hooked up to it: Aim/FB(when i had it)/Multiple Steam accounts/GTalk etc. Really great light weight chat client. Just wish there was a way to get Skype contacts on it.

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There actually is a way, you can use Skype4Pidgin. However this requires you to have skype running, but you are able to chat with your skype contacts through Pidgin. I do have to note that I've used this with Finch (also uses the purple library) and I've had one incident that I was talking to one person and one of my messages was mysteriously sent to a group chat instead of that one person. I've only had that happen to me once and I've not had that with Pidgin.

Here's the link: http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/

Unfortunately that will stop to work soon

http://blogs.skype.com/2013/11/06/feature-evolution-and-supp...

Whatever happened to Steve Ballmer screaming about developers?

Unfortunately it seems like over the years, companies have been providing fewer and fewer hooks into their products and services for developers to take advantage of.

Not that it ever worked properly. For me it was randomly dropping messages.

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