Do you know Skype basic code was written by Estonians? Thats what world media has said on that:
The New York Times, Hot Technology for Chilly Streets in Estonia, December 13, 2005:
/...there is an outlaw mystique to some of Estonia's ventures, drawn here to Europe's eastern frontier. Whether it is online gambling, Internet voice calls or music file-sharing - Skype's founders are also behind the most popular music service, Kazaa - Estonian entrepreneurs are testing the limits of business and law.
/For the 150 people who work at Skype, Estonia is clearly where the action is.
"What Skype has shown the world is that you can take a great idea, with few resources, and conquer the world," said Sten Tamkivi, the 27-year-old head of software development.
/More than 70 million people have downloaded Skype's free software from the Internet. /.../On a recent evening, 3.7 million people were logged on to the service, nearly three times the population of this country.
/.../Although Estonian developers wrote Skype's basic code, only a fraction of the eBay bonanza went into Estonian pockets.
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Small Estonia a big leader in global IT revolution, DPA (German news agency):
Estonia may be the original home of the revolutionary internet communication company Skype, but it's hard to find a completely Estonian business among the numerous information technology (IT) companies in the Baltic state.
With Skype being its hottest calling card, tiny Estonia has transformed itself into a something of a Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe./.../
