The two founders of Internet telephone service Skype are filing a lawsuit against the company’s current and potential owners, according to MarketWatch. The company’s founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, are filing a suit against eBay—which bought Skype in 2005—and a team of private investors looking to acquire the company. The suit is based on the claim by the founders that their current company owns the license to use a technology that runs Skype software, and says that damages “are amassing at a rate of more than $75 million daily” because of the license breach.
Skype Founders File Suit Against Investors, eBay
A suit against eBay and potential investors has the founders of Skype up in arms.
September 17, 2009