M$ Buys Skype: “Musical Chairs” play makes another victim.

Hey! Bad News Today.

Are you a Skype user? Me too. Well, not any more.

Today Micro$oft announced it’s bought of Skype Inc for U$8.500.000.000,00 – 8.5 billion dollars.

Together with that, Microsoft is buying all the informations that Skype had about you, including records of your calls as stressed out in Skype’s user “agreement”, your billing information that you might have wanted to give to Skype and NOT to Microsoft, your conversation history, and so on…

Microsoft destroys everything it touches. I, worried, watched closely “her” approximation to Yahoo, and was watching in silence her approximation to Skype before the announce happens.

Day after day we are watching quietly to trusts between technology companies and day after day we have have less options: we see something new, we want to try it out, we trust in that company and… BAM, your data is in the hands of people you don’t agree with… again.

Worse then that, we see these pseudo-”concurrent” stocks-cross-holders playing with our money, values and time; making everything reachable to make we have no choice but them.

COMPETITION LAWs or ANTITRUST LAWs are a reminiscent juridical aspect of the Roman Empire, and they have survived in so many places passing by so many different times for a reason. Now, they are being hit in front of us slowly in our daily lives up to the point of limiting our lives, choices, and our very confidence in the services we use, and in our power of choice among them, as – in the end – everything seems to go together to a small monopoly/oligopoly. This is Musical-Chairs, Russian-Roulette, random-”suicide”! **

It is important to note in this case that we are talking about a 8.5 billion dollar spent for a company that would take years to simply payback the value.

So, What is so important in Skype for Microsoft?

More and More information is becoming important, more and more this information – to these companies – are no longer simply about things, but about persons, and each day more personal.

We are talking about a company that last month has just removed data encryption option of users from 12 countries, all of them linked to ideologies that makes (or were in a process of possibly making) their business harder: After what happens in Egypt, no secure-https for all rebel countries in the area.

Who did give this power to a Juridical Person?

Did we get rid of monarchy, oligarchy, slavery, nobility (not the concept, the social structure), and so on to then give this all in the hands of a bunch of unknown, unelected and illegitimate persons to govern all these?!

Democracy means “power from the people”

We, the people, are being prevented from exercising OUR power.

Just some themes to think about,

Cartri

**(“Musical Chairs” or “Dança da Cadeira” in my natural language is a game in which people walks around empty chairs, there must be less chairs then people in the play. In a moment, the music stops, and everybody has to sit, if you could not, you lost the game, another chair is taken off so others can loose too, until only one remains.)