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I don't disagree with you as to what happened, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you think that Microsoft, Google and Facebook are all awful choices.

• benologist 15y ago
  Google has no support, Facebook is staging a war against privacy, and Microsoft has some pretty meh software outside of Windows (when they bother to have any version at all). I guess ultimately MS buying it was not the worst decision - a second-class client on non-Windows is better than Google not supporting it till the users give up and they can discontinue it, or Facebook defaulting to telling the whole frigging world every time you phone someone or sharing your Skype address with every scabby app developer out there. But it was really a lame lineup to choose from. I don't know who I'd actually have liked to buy Skype, but not these three.
  • brianbreslin 15y ago
    You are looking at this too much from your viewpoint as a consumer, not skype viewpoint as a Corp.
    • benologist 15y ago
      Of course ... I've been a (paying) user of Skype for years, I don't care about what's best or least-bad for them as a corporation, I care about me!