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John Dvorak Hypes Skype

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-zillion-users-and-counting dept.

Eh-Wire writes "John Dvorak gets all warm and fuzzy over Skype now that 30,000,000 users have registered for the free Internet telephony service. Dvorak extols the installation as, "smooth and elegant" and continues with, "Without any tweaking whatsoever it works immediately and works better than anything else I've used." Skype has appeared on the radar without pomp and fanfare and it doesn't look like it's going off screen any time soon."

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  1. But have they learnt their lesson? by matt+me · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Skype was written by the original authors of Kazaa, not Sharman Networks, the company who took it over and added all the malware.
    True. The questions is when those guys sold their program to an evil corp, did they know what they were doing? How for so many ppl, Kazaa would be their first ugly encounter with spyware?

    Would they do it again? Write a good app, build up a userbase, and then sell their users computers to be sacrifed to the Great Media Desktop?

    I don't trust Skype yet. There are two equally bad scenarios. It is sold off to the spyware giants, or a virus infects the windows clients and users phone a premium rate number.

    Read the Wikipedia article, and you'd be worried too.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype