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2009-07-31 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-07-31 08:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's not every day that the Burg can cite The Register.

Posted by Steve White 2009-07-31 11:20|| 2009-07-31 11:20|| Front Page Top

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Help me out hereâ¦ Ebay buys Skype for $3B, but the underlying technology that makes it work is not included in the sale, and the sellers (who made a killing) then sue Ebay for using it??

Forget about the fact that Ebay buying Skype was a dumb idea to begin with. But even if it made sense, was there no due diligence???

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-07-31 13:55|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-07-31 13:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Would anyone in the dot com business be making any money if everyone else did do due diligence?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-31 15:26|| 2009-07-31 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Since I live a kilometer from Skype headquarters in Estonia, I'm getting a kick of out this post.

From what I heard thought, that Joltid found out through the release of patent documents in an unrelated trial that EBay was outsourcing the source code to other companies, cutting them out of profits that they should have gotten. This is a new angle for me.

The evil 'Merican conspiracy theory will play well here in Europe, though.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-07-31 17:27|| 2009-07-31 17:27|| Front Page Top

#5 " proprietary scrambling technology"

Its simply a variant of public key crypto. Use enough bits with a proper algorithm, and you can secure anything.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-31 22:20|| 2009-07-31 22:20|| Front Page Top

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