[ale] I can't quit laughing

[Lawrence Hamblin]

I think I'll just rain on your parade with a bit of irony: the Linux
version of Skype is still stuck, after over two years, on version 2.2 beta.

Thanks Microsoft.

Lawrence

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Having been in this since kernel v.0.95 and seen the train wreck of
> Microsoft trying to hold off the inevitable, for them to cave this quickly
> and USE a Linux cluster as a core component is just a funny thing to me.
>
> And, yes, it is _QUITE_ a compliment!
>
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why? They realized linux was more efficient for their needs. I see it
>> as a compliment.
>>
>> On 5/4/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars
>> >
>> > --
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>> > James P. Kinney III
>> >
>> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
>> they
>> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>> >
>> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>> > *
>> >
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