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If I remember correctly, they had to buy Skype twice because they didn't get everything g in the first transaction. Also, the purchase was backed by the cia thr
by comrade1234 10mo ago
If I remember correctly, they had to buy Skype twice because they didn't get everything g in the first transaction. Also, the purchase was backed by the cia through one of their companies (I don't remember if it was palantir though) to remove the end-to-end encryption.
- HugoTea 10mo agoConspiracy or not, it being CIA funded is the most plausible explanation for why they'd make such an expensive purchase and do nothing with it.
- x0x0 10mo agoI think that was ebay. They bought skype but not the p2p tech backing it; fucked the founders on earnouts; the founders refused to reup the contract; ebay was incapable of replacing the tech; and the founders got a bunch of the business back. Presided over by Meg Whitman, who appears to be profoundly incompetent, understanding neither tech nor business. The contemporary articles are mostly gone, but eg https://archive.is/4tuRg https://archive.is/4tuRg and https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/06/skype-settlement https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/06/skype-set...