The founders of the internet calls the world’s most famous, Skype, will have played well to the kids on eBay. The online auction company that bought Skype in 2005, gaining the rights to use this tool. However, the code that was programmed with this application is the property of Jolt, a subsidiary company that still belongs to the creators of the program. A soap opera between companies reveals an attempt to gain the business of Skype.

And the founders of the invention now want to be back with the company. And it appears that eBay does not see it all clear to continue to pay, has been doomed to a demand from Jolt for misuse of their technology. While the trial is resolved, the owner of Skype is now working at top speed in the reconstruction of the architecture of the program before it reaches the date of a trial, held under current conditions, the balance inclined to the creators of the service messaging.

The timing of the lawsuit will be in mid-2010, and some people seem very unlikely that the current owners of Skype may have made to the duties then. The more cautious voices argue the matter in complete breakdown: proper adaptation of this service it seems that by creating a new one from scratch rather than reprogram the existing one. After all, the software and the management of Skype is based on a code that is now owned by Jolt.

At this time, the consequences of the disappearance of Skype as a service as we know it (including its image and the user base) would amount to millions of dollars, whereas the number of Internet users who use this program exceeds 480 million, amount that even the folds of a service as popular as Facebook. But the corporate soap opera has only just begun …

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