[Sheflug] Microsoft Buys Skype

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13343600

"  Microsoft has confirmed that it has agreed to buy internet phone 
service Skype.  The deal will see Microsoft pay $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for 
Skype, making it Microsoft's largest acquisition.   Luxembourg-based 
Skype has 663 million global users. In August last year it announced 
plans for a share flotation, but this was subsequently put on hold.  
Internet auction house eBay bought Skype for $2.6bn in 2006, before 
selling 70% of it in 2009 for $2bn.   This majority stake was bought 
by a group of investors led by private equity firms Silver Lake and 
Andreessen Horowit.  "

I would think that this means the end of Skype on Linux desktops ?  
Probably not yet but at some time in the future.  Ah.. well.. back to 
Ekiga and aMSN.

-- 
Richard
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