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by cranberryturkey 415 days ago
when i interviewed there, the VP of Engineer told me skype used to be a bittorrent client, but then they pivoted, hired a ton of video compression engineers and create Skype. video calling using the same p2p technology as bittorrent
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Well now that the reason for acquisition is gone (NSA wants centralized communication and europe wants protection from the US) - could the same engineers build and sell the same software under a new name - Epyks for example?