June 10, 2005

Please Say It Ain't So Skype

The talk of the day is the rumored merger talks between Yahoo and Skype. It all started with a blog entry by Jean Michel Billaut (we trust that our French speaking friends aren’t pulling our leg on this one) and then hit Om Malik’s blog and from there landed everywhere in the blogosphere.

From the sounds of it, Skype users are appalled at the notion of Yahoo taking over Skype. Here’s one typical take on the rumored deal by a Skype user named Dalton in a comment from an entry in endgadget:

I have a feeling that Yahoo buying Skype outright would turn it into an unusable, ass backwards application. Banner ads all over my damn screen. And right after I bought that Actiontec Skype gateway thingy and a SkypeIn number, too!

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield at 11:50 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack