Skype Options and Silver Lake

For those of you who don't have background on this:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/in-silicon…

Discuss. Do you think this will be a big hit to Silver Lake's reputation or will they still be regarded as a top tier PE investor? Is this is pretty common occurrence in PE or was Silver Lake exceptionally "evil"?

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