Ebay has begun developing an alternative to the P2P technology used by Skype as a licensing dispute drags on and threatens to close the popular IP telephony service.
Ebay bought Skype in 2005 for about US$2.6 billion but that deal didn't include the peer-to-peer networking technology on which it runs. That technology is owned by a company called Joltid and licensed to Skype, but the two sides have fallen out over the licensing agreement.
Earlier this year Skype asked England's High Court to resolve the dispute, according to Ebay. After that Joltid "purported" to terminate the license agreement, it said.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/169390/
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Ebay bought Skype in 2005 for about US$2.6 billion but that deal didn't include the peer-to-peer networking technology on which it runs. That technology is owned by a company called Joltid and licensed to Skype, but the two sides have fallen out over the licensing agreement.
Earlier this year Skype asked England's High Court to resolve the dispute, according to Ebay. After that Joltid "purported" to terminate the license agreement, it said.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/169390/
