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Complicating the "Microsoft corrupted the virtuous Skype" story is the fact that Skype appears in the PRISM slides dating to before Microsoft's purchase of it.
by kvb 13y ago
Complicating the "Microsoft corrupted the virtuous Skype" story is the fact that Skype appears in the PRISM slides dating to before Microsoft's purchase of it.
- RyanZAG 13y agoSimply not true. Skype appeared in the PRISM program on 2/6/11. Microsoft bought Skype on 10 May 2011. Very fishy dates? You bet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Microsoft_acquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Microsoft_acquisition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg
- kvb 13y agoYour first link indicates the acquisition wasn't completed until October 2011.
- seabee 13y agoCan you expand on why that part matters?
- kvb 13y agoI thought it made the dates look even less "fishy".
- seabee 13y agoIt's a flawed thought, since it's only the date they complete the acquisition on paper i.e. to signal to everyone that it's permanent. This does not forbid you from working with the company for integration purposes, or why would you have such a long time span between announcing you agreed to buy somebody and actually 'doing it'? In reality you would do a lot of work with the company you're attempting to buy. If for example Skype promised they could change the network to enable wiretapping yet they are unable to, then MSFT could cancel the deal. Or indeed for any of the reasons outlined in the original press release about 'forward-looking statements'.
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- cmsmith 13y agoIn US style dates, 2/6/11 (February 6th, when Skype appears on Prism slide) comes before May 10th (when Skype was purchased by MSFT). If that isn't the source of confusion, I don't understand your point.
- bincat 13y agoWho was the owner of Skype before Microsoft? I think those parties are more connected than meets the eye.