Microsoft betrays the naive developers who trusted its word:
@dangillmor
This is not the first time #microsoft fucked the entire planet.
#skype originally was true peer to peer communication system.
The US government wanted it dead, as it complicated intercepts enormously and it offered Microsoft something like 3.5billion dollars (of people's money) to buy it and break it.
I once went into an archival dig, and thanks to the ephemeral nature of the internet, there were only fragments of that hi/story preserved...
Soon after purchase, Microsoft broke Skype by making central servers...
...and as we now know, Skype is dead.
