TalQer hacks Skype

I’m not quite sure how Skype are going to react to this considering how they operate a proprietary protocol.

Charlie Paglee has announced that TalQer has managed to hack Skype so that once TalQer is installed there will be a new gold dial button in Skype that will call your contact with TalQer instead of SkypeOut.

TalQer is a Skype alternative that is based on the open source SIP, free voicemail and a SkypeIn equivalent called TalQin available from 38 countries.

However, like Michael Arrington I am unsure that TalQer will really gain significant traction even with this Skype ‘hack’. I would also be very busy finding a good legal representative as things could very easily escalate between Skype and TalQer.

On the other hand this announcement could usher in a new range of plugins and applications that hook into Skype, but that all depends on whether Skype will block TalQer. My bet is that this could turn into a tit-for-tat game much like the one between Apple and the developers of FairPlay DRM-stripping software.