I have one GREAT IDEA: Trademark enforcement ! Once a good open-source Skype-like project is born, with central registry, and firewall bypass, it *should* use it's own trademark that defines that forks must re-name themselves. Call this project "The Unique".
I.e. if a forker wants to change the code to point at a different central repository, he should be forced to change project name as well. (like FireFox -> Debian's IceWeasel trademark fork, due to inability to backport security patches to old versions of FireFox-proper.) So all users whom get the original "The Unique" project, they all are guaranteed to use central registry, and this guarantee can be enforced by project trademark, rather than code licensing. In a similar way, Red Hat is protecting their brand, and CentOS cannot use Red Hat's trademark, but can use it's code. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"