Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover

jfruhlinger writes "You might think that the executive team that engineered a lucrative buyout for their company would be rewarded. But eight execs from Skype instead found themselves fired just before their company was formally taken over by Microsoft. It appears that this move isn't meddling from Redmond; rather, the private equity firm that owns a 70 percent stake in Skype wanted to cut back on the payout to company execs that would normally accompany this kind of transaction."

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Ah, but I wanted to blame Microsoft

[elrous0]

It appears that this move isn't meddling from Redmond

There must be SOME way I can blame this on evil Microsoft. Were the fired execs open source, by any chance?

A new kind of evil?

[AliasMarlowe]

Now we blame everything on Apple..... and sometimes google.

Not everything, just the moderate amount of evil that isn't actually Microsoft's fault. Most of it can be fairly blamed on Apple, but this one kind of falls through the cracks. It's evil, but can't really be blamed on Microsoft or Apple or Adobe or Oracle (the usual gang of malefactors), Google haters are utterly stumped, and it's not even patent or DRM style evil.