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A small nitpick: "Estonians invented another icon of internet cool: Skype." Skype was invented by Janus Friis, a dane, and Niklas Zennnstrøm, a swede. They did
by mixmax 16y ago
A small nitpick: "Estonians invented another icon of internet cool: Skype." Skype was invented by Janus Friis, a dane, and Niklas Zennnstrøm, a swede. They did outsource a lot of their development to Estonia though.
- kragen 16y agoThose were just the company founders. The development is the part where you actually invent things.
- jkaljundi 16y agoDepends what you consider "inventing". The Estonian technical co-founders of Skype were working together with Janus and Niklas already during Kazaa times, and were co-founding shareholders and behind the whole Skype architecture from day one. I would not call that outsourcing. Of course they don't mind you calling them whatever you like, as they got their 200 mUSD part :)
- mixmax 16y agoI didn't know that, thanks for the clarification.