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I interviewed at skype after paypal acquired them and then spun them off again. It was a cool p2p app, then microsoft took it over and made it centralized.
by cranberryturkey 1y ago
I interviewed at skype after paypal acquired them and then spun them off again. It was a cool p2p app, then microsoft took it over and made it centralized.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago> It was a cool p2p app Indeed, I shall certainly miss the low-grade flood of spammers and scammers who slid into my DMs over the decades I wasn't using my Skype profile for anything at all.
- dewey 1y agoDefinitely a Skype problem, spamming definitely wouldn't happen on any other service.
- cranberryturkey 1y agoyou're joking right?
- dewey 1y agoMaybe!
- PicassoCTs 1y agoIts funny in a way, all that money, but because the paradigm of the organization has to be enforced into the tech, those fingers can not hold this chalice.
- cranberryturkey 1y agowhen i interviewed there, the VP of Engineer told me skype used to be a bittorrent client, but then they pivoted, hired a ton of video compression engineers and create Skype. video calling using the same p2p technology as bittorrent
- PicassoCTs 1y agoWell now that the reason for acquisition is gone (NSA wants centralized communication and europe wants protection from the US) - could the same engineers build and sell the same software under a new name - Epyks for example?