November 7, 2005

naughty, bad, evil skype etc.

7 Comments

Oh, appa­rently Skype is evil as well. Or at least, they now have a dark side. [Link via Ferg­dawg.]
Seems like there are three sta­ges in the blogosphere’s per­cei­ved busi­ness cycle.

1. Cool, Fabby, the dar­ling of the early adap­tors etc.
2. Big and evil.
3. Big, evil and dying.

So Skype is now moving from Phase One to Phase Two. But as the foun­ders are now sit­ting on their yachts, having sold the com­pany to E-Bay for qua­zi­llions, who cares?

7 Responses to “naughty, bad, evil skype etc.”

  1. Dan Winkler says:
    November 8, 2005 at 1:25 am

    Should we all switch to Gizmo?
    http://www.gizmoproject.com/

  2. hugh macleod says:
    November 8, 2005 at 4:29 am

    If we do that, then gizmo will be EVIL as well!

  3. Jack says:
    November 8, 2005 at 5:02 am

    Well the evil­ness is this P2P aspect just wai­ting to be exploi­ted by hac­kers. Ergo, Skype has been evil for as long as they’ve been using P2P to carry data.
    Of course, the article is all about the tech­no­logy and has little to do with the company’s motives.

  4. shelley Noble says:
    November 8, 2005 at 9:35 am

    Maybe the seeds of evil are pre­sent at incep­tion of all busi­nes­ses. But the story that we all buy into rides on rumor of purity.

  5. hugh macleod says:
    November 8, 2005 at 11:39 am

    English Cut is evil and it’s not even big yet.

  6. chris says:
    November 9, 2005 at 12:02 am

    So, what’s the big reve­la­tion here? Busi­ness repor­ters are finally clued in to how P2P works?
    P2P is not evil, it’s a risk/benefit trade off: Surren­der your com­pu­ter to the network/get fee phone calls, music, video, etc…

  7. Justin Kownacki says:
    November 10, 2005 at 3:52 pm

    Fuck evil. You’ve got be kid­ding me that this is even news. Isn’t there something legi­ti­mate going on in the tech world this week?