Facebook Wants To Buy Skype 192
An anonymous reader writes "Remember when we learned that Facebook had resumed talks with Skype? Well, it turns out that Facebook is considering buying Skype outright. 'Skype is reportedly talking to Facebook about some sort of deal. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been involved in internal discussions about buying Skype, while Facebook also reached out to the Luxembourg-based company about forming a joint venture.'"
New name? (Score:5, Funny)
If they buy Skype, they should change their name to Phonebook.
Re:So where's the FLOSS/open codec Skype alternati (Score:4, Funny)
With EIGHTEEN public diaspora pods [podupti.me] available, each with TENS of seeds, I think it's safe to say that everybody who's anybody is on Diaspora by now.