IPxx and Skype – When??? UPDATE!
We have received an unofficial feedback from a Digium representative regarding this matter. It was made clear that the following info was not necessarily that of the Board of Digium, just the personal opinion and understanding of the person speaking to us.
A lot of time and money has gone into the development, the license cost was to pay Skype, and Digium need to recover the cost of development. It made sense to release it for intel based systems first as this was the largest segment of the market and since their own Switchbox uses intel. They realize that the Blackfin systems are very popular and Switchbox was looking at all chipsets to produce green products. It was expected that a version for Backfin chipsets would be made available in the future.
In other words, Digium is not sleeping in class but are aware of the GREAT and GREEN potential of embedded PBX’s based on the Blackfin DSP. But I still believe that they need a little convincing, so please keep on sending mails telling how much we want to integrate Skype!