On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:42 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > One commentator has suggested they've done it for the subscriber list > and not for the technology...
Ridiculous. Skype's ability to pierce all forms of NAT and firewall puts it miles ahead of MSN. On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:33 +0100, Dan Attwood wrote: > So why not just buy the company and tear it to bits? Because publicly-traded companies don't do that to profitable companies with valuable technology. It doesn't increase shareholder value. It's easy to assume everything MS does is evil, and specifically bad for Linux users. They are no friend of ours, clearly, but that doesn't translate to making bad business decisions out of spite. Regards, Tyler -- "Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
