[Info-vax] OT: Microsoft got its hands on Skype for $ 8.5 billion

[MG]

While Skype never ran on any operating system for which I really cared
(i.e. VMS, IRIX, OpenBSD ...), with the non-Windows (e.g. Linux) ports
already lagging behind, now it has been bought by Microsoft for $ 8.5
billion!

For me there's even less reason to still use it and it's yet another
program I'm going to permanently 'uninstall'...  I like VMS PHONE, MAIL
and regular e-mail better anyway!

In a Dutch article I just read that Microsoft has pledged that they're
going to 'open up' Skype for 'intelligence agencies'.  I'm not an 
American citizen, but isn't it unconstitutional in the USA to spy on
the citizens?  (I know it isn't in the Netherlands, but that's the
Netherlands.)

	--> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13343600>
	--> 
<http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10CorpNewsPR.mspx>
	--> <http://www.boycottowl.com/Skype>

  - MG