I’m feeling sorry for my friends in California tonight. Your GOP candidate for governor is the Meg Whitman.  The lady who “diluted the magic of eBay” and did everything in her power to run the company into the ground. “Hey lets buy Skype but not the patents to the technology.” BRILLIANT!  Not to mention the other dumb business moves made during her short tenure at the helm.

On the other side of the coin you have former Gov. Jerry Brown. I don’t know anything about Mr. Brown, but one can venture to guess.

For the sake of your local economy (which has a direct impact on my own livelihood) I really hope that you have some decent third, fourth & fifth “party” candidates in the race.  I know you can do it!

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.