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Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:43AM (#20887159)
Skype wasn't a chat program.

Skype was a P2P phone calling program over TCP/IP.

I.e., a neat trick that might have killed traditional telecoms.

Then Microsoft bought Skype and killed it instead.

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Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss by DangitBobby on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:58AM (#20893627)
Thank you for reminding me that Skype was a good product at one point.
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