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Comment by ratg13

They’ve rebuilt popular software many times over in the past.

Even with Skype they rebuilt the entire backend as well when they moved it from a decentralized platform to a centralized platform.

I struggle to believe that this theory holds any water.

It also lends support to an old conspiracy theory that the primary driver for Microsoft buying Skype was so that the service could be centralized so that communications could be monitored and intercepted.

parent ratg13 1 year ago

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