[governance] RE: Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype

[Roland Perry]

In message <07094605-69B8-4F80-AA73-BAB867BBD602 at acm.org>, at 17:38:43 
on Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> writes
>one thought, since Zennstrom et al, still hold the license on the core 
>piece of technology, can't we assume that if they can't get sufficient 
>compensation from eBay, they will either come out with a new offering 
>themselves or find someone else to license it and put out a new offering?
>
>what is sad is that no one really believes that eBay can get it to work 
>with VoIP.

I'm wondering how many people use Skype to talk, and how many to 
exchange instant messages. My own usage is heavily biassed towards the 
instant messaging.
-- 
Roland Perry
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