eBay threatens to remake the Skype protocol

As you know, Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in 2005 sold their brainchild to eBay for $ 3.1 billion, but before the sale they managed to transfer the rights to the key peering technology that Joltid owns to Skype, which Zennström and Friis own before so far. How businessmen have succeeded in such a genius scam - nobody still understands.

Previously, eBay used the technology under license, but on April 1, 2009, entrepreneurs overturned this license through a British court.

Now eBay is tied hand and foot. The company has repeatedly tried to sell Skype, but can not do it without the consent of the owners of key technology. The owners themselves say that only they themselves can buy their offspring at a very low price. Like, otherwise eBay will not get anything at all.
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And eBay management came up with a way out. Yesterday they announced that they would develop their counterpart to Joltid technology instead of the patented one. And if Skype with a new engine is not viable, then they generally close this service.

That is, eBay is all-in. Such a demarche is designed to scare Zennström with Friis, so greedy businessmen can reduce their demands.