Skype Founders Sue eBay, Investors
Via The Wall Street Journal:
A company owned by Skype’s founders filed a copyright suit against Skype, a move that could complicate the $2 billion deal by eBay to sell the online communications company to a group of investors.
Joltid, owned by Skype’s founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit seeking an injunction against Skype and statutory damages for copyright infringements. Joltid owns a peer-to-peer technology that is used in Skype’s software.
As I said on Blue Shotgun Radio #40, eBay was extremely ignorant in this deal from the get-go and I have no idea what the new investors are thinking. Nothing good can come of this in my opinion.
If you’re getting a new online phone number, I’d opt for Gizmo. I have had one of each for a few years & like Gizmo a little better than Skype.
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October 15th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Skype + Gizmo5 would bring necessary growth to SIP…
Dear Skype, please buy Gizmo5! Together you can develop a real Peer-to-peer SIP and don’t need JoltID anymore. Such a deal would bring the necessary growth to the SIP world. The number of real SIP users, who can always call each other for free over t….