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Skype shutdown: where are free software and free protocols?
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| Free software is definitely going strong in some areas, especially in the
| server market. However, there are other areas where free software and free
| protocols have failed. Internet based voice and video communication is one of
| those areas. The market is basically fully owned by Skype, a piece of
| proprietary software based on a proprietary (and abusive) protocol in the
| hands the same company that runs eBay. Free software advocates have been
| saying âwhat if Skype was discontinued?â for years. Then I read about eBay
| considering shutting Skype down. Pardon?
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/skype_shutdown_where_are_free_software_and_free_protocols
Net2Phone Jumps Into The VoIP Patent Lawsuit Business: Sues Skype
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| In the last year, we've witnessed plenty of companies dig up VoIP patents
| with which to sue market innovator Vonage. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and Nortel
| all were able to get Vonage to cough up some money, rather than continue to
| fight some questionable patents.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080131/001435132.shtml
Skype As We Know It May Not Exist Much Longer, eBay Says
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| Joltid, a company owned by Skype's founders, merely licensed some of the
| system's core technology to eBay when it sold Skype to the auction giant in
| 2005. Joltid now says that the license has been revoked and eBay is
| infringing on its rights by continuing to use the technology. The case is
| scheduled to go to court in June of 2010 but eBay is trying to replace the
| technology in the meantime. It may not succeed.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/skype_as_we_know_it_may_not_exist_much_longer_ebay.php
Skype Founders Claim eBay No Longer Has A Right To Skype's Core Tech
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090730/1950195721.shtml
Licensing dispute could scupper Skype
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1495813/licensing-dispute-scupper-skype
QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000119312509157212/d10q.htm";
Spinvox Tries To Patent Dictation?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090731/0301435724.shtml
Method of providing voicemails to a wireless information device
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1="20060223502".PGNR.&OS=DN/20060223502&RS=DN/20060223502
Recent:
Russian Telcos: Skype Is Hurting Our Business And Must Be Stopped
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| Over in Russia, for example, it appears that a bunch of telco execs are
| complaining about Skype. They at least try to pass off a plausible
| non-save-our-asses reason: mentioning security, but they don't do a very good
| job hiding the truth.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090726/0349145659.shtml
Why eBay Should Open-Source Skype
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| The great thing about opening up Skype is that it wouldn't affect its
| business model, which is already based on giving away the code, albeit in a
| closed form. Money could still be made from the outbound calls from Skype to
| ordinary phone lines. But freeing Skype completely would encourage wider use
| of both it and its protocols as an entire ecosystem grew up around them,
| leading to more users, and more opportunities to sell them subscriptions or
| pay-as-you-go plans. The only thing that eBay would lose are some of its
| problems....
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/why-ebay-should-open-source-skype
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