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

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

Do you have a link to the Dutch article available?


"MG" <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote in message 
news:4dc96468$0$41117$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl...
> 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
>