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2010-05-28 , 19:54
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Originally Posted by Sopwith View Post


What is immoral about Nokia buying Skype?
skype is bad, as zimon pointed out above. you said that it's only about the user base. that's why i pointed out that it's not only about the user base. it's about what's morally good. skype is not.
 

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If someone buys Skype, they can actually open up all the codes and licenses.

See also: google's acquisitions.
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this is the most useless topic here probably forever....
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Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
this is the most useless topic here probably forever....
Not even close...
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
skype is bad, as zimon pointed out above. you said that it's only about the user base. that's why i pointed out that it's not only about the user base. it's about what's morally good. skype is not.
Thanks for answering, benny1967, you really had me puzzled.

I don't think that Skype HAVE to stick with their proprietary codecs. They could easily phase them out and replace with open standards. Heck, Nokia could do that (if they bought Skype first

So would you consider it moral that way?

EDIT: ysss already suggested that. Don't you just hate it when work gets in the way of entertainment?
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
If someone buys Skype, they can actually open up all the codes and licenses.

See also: google's acquisitions.
Not really argument against Nokia buying Skype.

See also: Trolltech and Symbian acquisitions.
 

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Originally Posted by Rauha View Post
Not even close...
lets rephrase:

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Originally Posted by Rauha View Post
Not really argument against Nokia buying Skype.

See also: Trolltech and Symbian acquisitions.
It wasn't.

See my previous post for arguments against Nokia buying Skype
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
It wasn't.

See my previous post for arguments against Nokia buying Skype
Same arguments apply to Google actually. Telcos are keypartners in the Openhandset alliance.
 
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Same arguments apply to Google actually. Telcos are keypartners in the Openhandset alliance.
Google don't sell their services directly to telcos like Nokia does.
Yes, it's pretty much a messy gangbang out there and getting harder to make out who's with who; but I think it's pretty clear that the telcos are holding Nokia's ding dong pretty tight.
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