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Saif writes to let us know that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have filed a copyright suit against eBay for altering and sharing the peer-to-peer source code behind the calling service. The founders managed to maintain ownership of the source and licensed it to eBay in their 2005 deal and are now seeking an injunction and statutory damages which could total more than $75 million per day. "Mr. Zennstrom and Mr. Friis have developed a reputation for litigiousness in some legal circles. They filed three separate lawsuits against Pamela Colburn, an investment banker who represented them in the original sale of Skype, in the United States, the Netherlands and Britain. In May, a British judge dismissed the case and said the two men's reason for pursuing the matter in his country 'remains inexplicable.' The buyers of Skype have not publicly addressed the founders' lawsuit against eBay in Britain or their potential legal liability."
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Posted by on under chinese hacker, doing business in china, wet kiss, google, business in china, chinese markets, search market, techcrunch, chr, motives, tyranny, source code, peoe, assets, congress, holidays, microsoft |
This is why I have a strong dislike of government and our system of lobbyists. Many people in the tech community are becoming increasingly
skeptical of Google's motives in partially pulling out of the Chinese markets and starting to suggest
a certain level of hypocrisy. Google gets hacked over the Christmas holidays when most people aren't watching the ship, and all of their source code for all of their products is, embarrassingly, downloaded to a Chinese hacker. Their response? Pull out of a search market that they are already failing in. But leave other assets that have more promise. And suddenly the U.S. Congress is
praising Google and slamming, well, Microsoft. Because doing business in China was just fine in December 2009. But today it's very, very wrong. Says Chris Smith, R-N.J.:
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Posted by on under shockwave flash, astute reader, droid, flash file, august 23rd, dominic, source code, release date, hunting, motorola, nbsp, hollywood, images, sun |
Astute reader Dominic was just minding his business, hunting for hints in the Droid Does website source code, when what should he allegedly discover but an entire
Droid 2 spread inside an Shockwave Flash file. To our knowledge these may be the first official images of the Motorola A955, though of course
we've already seen it a
number of
times before. We just need Verizon to leak an official announcement with price and release date now -- we're hearing
August 23rd -- and perhaps a nice Hollywood
trailer to round things out. See a larger version of Dominic's discovery right after the break.
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