Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype 282
tomlins writes "eBay is faced with the prospect of having to close down the hugely popular VoIP app Skype due to its reliance on proprietary code still owned by Skype's original founders, who are threatening to pull the plug on the licensing agreement they have with eBay."
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if you're spending $1 million a day, that $2.6 Billion is only going to last 2600 days which is only about seven years.* You need to make sure your elder years will be good aswell.
(* This calculation doesn't take into account one time purchases like houses, cars, airplanes, some nice island near hawaii)
Dupe? Oh, no, different company... (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't we just have this a few years ago... oh no, that was SCO forgetting to actually buy UNIX from Novell. I wonder how many other companies will turn out not to own the software they think they own?
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft, who are doing hardware (and xbox) even if their core business is in Operating Systems.
I thought Microsoft was trying to get out of the Operating System business because they couldn't compete with Windows XP.
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe they should leave negative feedback?
"Goods not as advertised, would not buy again"
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:3, Funny)
In other words, they sell filesharing software? Quick, anyone tell the RIAA! :-)
Re:Ekiga (Score:3, Funny)
eBay got a bad deal? (Score:5, Funny)
I guess they'll have to make a negative outcome rating on the seller, and attempt to get resolution through the.....oh, wait....then skype will just neg them back and we already know how the "resolution" process favors the sellers. I guess eBay is just out of luck. What a shame.
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Re:Wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
This is the year of the Vista desktop!
Re:Oovoo (Score:1, Funny)
Well, I'd rather have a video of the 3-way :)