title: Sheepsourced link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/sheepsourced/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 2681 created: 2012/05/09 07:40:33 created_gmt: 2012/05/09 11:40:33 comment_status: closed post_name: sheepsourced status: publish post_type: post

Sheepsourced

Really good comment over on The Register by someone calling themselves "TeeCee". This appears in the comments to Cisco complains to the Eu about Microsoft/Skype deal:

Why does anyone use it? Easy one, it's sheepsourced in the same way as Faceb0rk, Tw@tter, et. al. Person A wants to talk to person B. Person B already has Skhype, so person A gets it too. Baaa. When person C wants to talk to A and/or B, getting Skype is the easy answer. Baaaaaaa. Then D, E, F and G get involved. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Eventually you get to a critical mass where even the sensible people who know they're doing the wrong thing get Skype, purely 'cos everyone else has it. If you are techinally competant, installing Skype is a lot simpler than convincing the Skypesheep to migrate to SIP. Incidently, this is why the much promised Skype-to-SIP / SIP-to-Skype service will never appear in the core product. It can only grow while it's closed, forcing anyone who wants to join in to take their solution. M$ bought 'em for a very obvious reason. Skype is the only candidate we've ever had for a Global telco monopoly and it's the people who are going to f***ing give the monopoly to them.......

(emphasis added) Undeniably brilliant, frighteningly wise.

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