Comment 1 for bug 656091

Please clarify whether you are unable to *capture* anything from your webcam. Did you select it as the default input device using the GNOME sound preferences/Input or the pavucontrol application (you'd need to install the latter, though it isn't necessary)?

Skype works fine here in both Lucid and Maverick via native PulseAudio support. Make sure that you've disabled Skype's automatic adjustment of capture levels.

The decision to obsolete OSS support was made at UDS-Maverick and simply follows the lead that Fedora established several releases ago.