Skype for Gnu/Linux

This communications program that allowed communication by video and audio by VOIP very popular had a version for Gnu/Linux.
Microsoft bought it for 8,500 million dollars, then Microsoft integrated it to its system being able to access through a hotmail account and others like Xbox.
Although at first there were questions of his status in Gnu/Linux.
Later the launch of a new Electron based application gives us the possibility to have the same functionalities of Windows.

10/05/2011 Microsoft purchasing Skype – what could this mean for Linux?