• Hans Blaauw on Skype to Sell Out?

  First of all it is funny to see how less this Cringley dude knows about Europe (like a lot of people from the US). Skype a Swiss company? Come on man, show that you did your homework!

  For me personally it would be bad news if either Skype would be bought by a mobile operator or a landline operator. Why? Simple, Skype is a software company although they sometimes behave like a mobile operator. They should stay independent from Telco infrastructure and focus on promoting Skype as a strong platform to develop services/software on. Do you know any Telco operator that allows developers to write applications on an API? Not me!

  I actually think this story is just a hoax or whatever.

• Jan Geirnaert on Skype to Sell Out?

  Microsoft is big because it kepts it's identity. Ohterwise it would be have grey or blue like all the rest... and the name would have been IBM-soft and we would all be using OS2/Warp.

  I don't like to work on computer-systems or software systems which tell me (when i have remark to make in order to enhance the product and keep the customer, yes me, happy) that they cannot this and that and ble ble ble. That is why Dell Computers has taken soo much market-share from the others who could not do it, did not know how to do it, or even worse were too complacent to do it.

  I like skype for the all the good reasons :
  - they did something their way
  - they did something everybody thought was hype, but it works.
  - they are talking, communicating to the market, something that cannot be said of many big company in the world.

• Peter Burch on Skype to Sell Out?

  Interesting reading. However, Robert X. Cringely should know that Luxembourg is not in Switzerland!

• Dmitriy Andreyev on Skype to Sell Out?

  What's wrong? Will Skype live or it selling is his death? What plans do Skype buyers have? Is it so simple to disable service that the whole world love? I don't know... and you? Can anybody explain me this things...
  With regards Dmitriy

• Jim Courtney on Skype to Sell Out?

  I found this story so full of mistatements that I actually wrote a rare blog post pointing out how Cringley does not understand Skype, its current financial players, its positioning and its potential at all. One has to stop thinking about conventional telephony. It's the applications, man, that will drive revenues!

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