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Unless the creator has special permission from Skype to use their brand in this way, I think they may be receiving a cease-and-desist in pretty short order. It
by tg3 15y ago
Unless the creator has special permission from Skype to use their brand in this way, I think they may be receiving a cease-and-desist in pretty short order.
It gets the concept across well, but using someone else's brand name is usually not a good idea.
- wmf 15y agoWhat does this even have to do with Skype? Isn't Skype — being P2P — already powered by the people?
- cryptoz 15y ago> Isn't Skype — being P2P — already powered by the people? Any closed-source computer program owned by Microsoft isn't exactly "powered by the people".
- dkokelley 15y agoThat's exactly what I thought. The title made me think this was an open-sourced Skype alternative, using the name "Skype" just to describe an analogy, not name the product. While this doesn't make any attempt to emulate Skype's functionality, it does use the name. Skype could argue that their brand would be falsely associated with this project. The name definitely needs to be changed.