Skype upgrade for Mac 10.5.8 not working

[Topic title updated by moderator to be more descriptive. Original topic title was: "Skype upgrade for Mac not working"]
Skype just left my 79 y.o. father wihtout SKYPE, he is running 10.5.8 becasuse it is good enough for him, he is used to it aafter years of using it.
You cant ask an older person to start searching forums etc.
They rely on the companies that make the products they trust.
I have helped him download and install Skype_6.3.0.604.dmg (we are 500 km away) but the program now says it is not supported.
I can tell my dad to modify the /etc/hosts file and the info.plist.
This is just ridiculous.
SKYPE: YOU SHOULD NOT GIVE THE CHANCE TO UPDATE TO A VERSION THAT IS NOT GOING TO WORK!!!!

Not to sound fraternising, but the matter of fact is that nothing has been changed in tcp/ip, that is used by Skype.  What has been changed is that Microsoft now manage the code, and with that comes the Microsoft way of doing things. If this includes complete lack of version control and software management, I suggest you do not change one thing.
What you do not explain and fail to mention is that features that used to work, does not work in your new versions, and the simplest way to get it to work is to remove everything that has been changed.
What has been changed is how the tcp/ip packets are sent on the Internet. The software that MS acquired used straight forward, standard tcp/ip with non-lingering sockets, which is the ITU-T variant of tcp/ip that is also the US FCC RFC. If Microsoft wants to implement Skype on Netbios, go ahead, but do not expect others to follow, and allow the rest of the world, including those that used to run Skype on Windows, to leave and find the attempt a complete waste of time, and the software utter worthless.
It is very well defined what Skype is expected to deliver of functionality, just now, it is to perform just as good as two years ago. If you cannot acheive this by Windows used on servers on the network, that is a change that removed functionality, and did not add anything. It is simple to get it back - drop the Windows relay servers. Microsoft cannot rewrite international standards - and do not tell us to endorse any attempt of that nature. It would be nice if the world was a cube, but all your effort in telling us that it is convenient does not change facts: it will be round as a bowling ball, and tcp/ip has to be fully standard, not one that keeps open long after the connection has been taken down to allow MS to implement IPX/SPX functionality in Skype. We are not interested, and nobody is, I doubt Mr. Nadella would endorse this had he known.

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