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Title: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Newby on September 12, 2005, 09:28:13 AM
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/09/12/1153223.shtml?tid=187&tid=215&tid=98&tid=95

Damn. Just damn.
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Screenor on September 12, 2005, 01:19:01 PM
Quote from: Newby on September 12, 2005, 09:28:13 AM
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/09/12/1153223.shtml?tid=187&tid=215&tid=98&tid=95

Damn. Just damn.
Ugh? So..?
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: MyndFyre on September 12, 2005, 01:38:14 PM
Quote from: Scr33n0r on September 12, 2005, 01:19:01 PM
Quote from: Newby on September 12, 2005, 09:28:13 AM
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/09/12/1153223.shtml?tid=187&tid=215&tid=98&tid=95

Damn. Just damn.
Ugh? So..?
So our free phone calls just cost us bajillions of ads now.  :P
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: GameSnake on September 12, 2005, 03:57:10 PM
Notice they're paying in half with stocks, sneaky corps eh?

Anywho as MyndFyre says look out for the ads!
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Screenor on September 12, 2005, 04:03:37 PM
Eh, someone will release a crack. They have them for nearly everything else (i.e. AIM's ads, ICQ, xfire, etc).

Never really cared for Skype anyways, and I thought you had to pay to call a real house phone/cell?
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: GameSnake on September 12, 2005, 04:08:00 PM
No VoIP is a free (totally internet based?) phone calling service (last time I used it).
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Screenor on September 12, 2005, 04:20:27 PM
Quote from: GameSnake on September 12, 2005, 04:08:00 PM
No VoIP is a free (totally internet based?) phone calling service (last time I used it).
Not totally internet based, you can call home phones for a fee.
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Sidoh on September 12, 2005, 05:50:17 PM
Quote from: Scr33n0r on September 12, 2005, 04:20:27 PM
Quote from: GameSnake on September 12, 2005, 04:08:00 PM
No VoIP is a free (totally internet based?) phone calling service (last time I used it).
Not totally internet based, you can call home phones for a fee.

That's not true VoIP, though.  That's VoIP connecting to the telephone infrastructure.
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Ryan Marcus on September 12, 2005, 06:08:43 PM
Just keep your old version ;)
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Sidoh on September 12, 2005, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: Ryan Marcus on September 12, 2005, 06:08:43 PM
Just keep your old version ;)
Hehe.
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Blaze on September 12, 2005, 07:00:55 PM
Quote from: Ryan Marcus on September 12, 2005, 06:08:43 PM
Just keep your old version ;)
Untill your product can no longer connect anymore at least. ;)
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Quik on September 12, 2005, 07:07:40 PM
Just trying to rival with Google.
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Blaze on September 12, 2005, 07:08:42 PM
Quote from: Quik on September 12, 2005, 07:07:40 PM
Just trying to rival with Google.

I wonder what would happen if googled owned ebay.... *grin*
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: MyndFyre on September 12, 2005, 08:01:23 PM
Quote from: Blaze on September 12, 2005, 07:08:42 PM
Quote from: Quik on September 12, 2005, 07:07:40 PM
Just trying to rival with Google.

I wonder what would happen if googled owned ebay.... *grin*

That would mean Google owned PayPal.  That's what I want -- people tracking where I'm sending money.  Correction, *more* people tracking where I send money.  I could just see my next gmail ads coming out of just having subscribed to Red vs Blue.
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: rabbit on September 12, 2005, 08:37:34 PM
Fuck...I forgot to do that (and consequently spent all my money)!
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Sidoh on September 12, 2005, 10:11:22 PM
Quote from: Quik on September 12, 2005, 07:07:40 PM
Just trying to rival with Google.
I've only heard one negative opinion of Google in... since I can remember.  It was something along the lines of the search results getting so watered down with people who pay to have their results higher up in the list that they're often invalid.  Well... I have never had a problem with finding what I want on Google (unless I was to blame for searching on some obscure topic), so I'm not going to even slightly agree with that opinion, though it does seem somewhat logical.
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: Joe on September 13, 2005, 12:26:06 AM
Two dollars says they auction it off! =p
Title: Re: eBay to purchase Skype
Post by: rabbit on September 13, 2005, 07:39:25 PM
Quote from: Sidoh on September 12, 2005, 10:11:22 PM
Quote from: Quik on September 12, 2005, 07:07:40 PM
Just trying to rival with Google.
I've only heard one negative opinion of Google in... since I can remember.  It was something along the lines of the search results getting so watered down with people who pay to have their results higher up in the list that they're often invalid.  Well... I have never had a problem with finding what I want on Google (unless I was to blame for searching on some obscure topic), so I'm not going to even slightly agree with that opinion, though it does seem somewhat logical.
All the ads people pay Google to show are either in a blue box at the top of the results, or in a separate list to the right.  Either way, both are clearly marked with "sponsored link".  It's engines like Yahoo, which merges sponsored and crawled links into one single list, that should die and explode.