The question that I haven't seen answered in any of the articles relating to the partial acquisition of Skype from eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) by a team of private investors is, who will own the underlying IP that runs the Skype P2P communications network?
That question must somehow have been answered if savvy investors such as Silver Lake Partners and Netscape founder Marc Andreesen's investment fund, felt comfortable forking over $1.9 billion to eBay.
And as TechCrunch's Mike Arrington points out, eBay did okay on this deal, emerging with a paper gain and still some share of any potential upside.
