It seems that all the noise around Skype should simmer down with the recent announcement that the company will be back under significant control of Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis.
There has been drama around Joost ousted CEO Mike Volpi in the last several months and his integrity in running that company. That appears to be an issue that led to Joost's current troubles.
A great commentary can be found at gigaom.com here; http://gigaom.com/2009/11/06/my-thoughts-on-skype-settlement-winners-losers-scorecard/
The interesting technology news is that the UC500 is now interoperable with Skype. This is a seemingly unlikely move that has been made. Skype is embracing SIP technology as well as p2p. It should allow many of us to move into cheap and low quality voice calls in more ways than we used to :-).
http://about.skype.com/2009/09/skype_for_sip_now_interoperabl.html
That said, let's hope Skype can move forward and enjoy enhanced technology directions.
Cheers!
Doug
