When I first heard on Thursday from Charlie Paglee that the Skype code had been cracked it was an early morning of a busy day so I knew that one of the other bloggers likely would cover this in detail, and explain the implications the way pal Alec Saunders did.
But I never would have expected the story that Paglee drew attention about to have been so twisted, as it was by MarketWatch.
Paglee is still the Chairman of the Board of Hanzen and his Skype ID reflectes that and while he's moved more into a less active role while focusing on a Google Talk related venture, he's still aware of what the company is doing. And cracking Skype isn't part of their efforts.
This morning after reading the Marketwatch story a very upset and distraught Charlie Paglee advised me that the entire Marketwatch story "is full of inaccuracies" and he's contacted Charney by email.
The facts are simple. Skype is not patented. Everything in it is proprietary. That makes it, as Paglee pointed out to me, totally permissable for someone to reverse engineer the Skype code and create a workable solution.
For more, please check out Phil Wolff's post over at Skype Journal on why this is a good thing.
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