[asterisk-biz] Skype Outage Leaves Millions Speechless

[Steve Kennedy]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:12:40PM +0200, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

> On 8/18/07, Hermann Wecke <hermann at wecke.com> wrote:
> > "Skype might finally turn out to be the $4 billion mistake many thought
> > when eBay first bought it."
> I thought the sale was $2B, where is the other $2B from?
> On top of that yesterday a russian hacker claims credit for taking
> skype out, although the exploit he offered didnt seem to pan out so
> that may be a hoax.

$2bn in cash and another $2bn if they met targets etc.

Steve

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