[TheForge] ot an inexpensive way to telephone, skype

[Stephen Viola]

Yep! I've been using SKYPE for years as I live in Finland and chat
with friends and family in Australia. It's a really good system and
hasn't failed me yet. The inventor of SKYPE is the same inventor who
create Kazaa and Kazaa lite. For those of you that don't know it was
the European version of Napster. He felt that the technology is there
so why pay for it? Of course he has become a multi-millionaire for
this idea of "not paying" but hey, all good ideas have their faults!
I think the idea of skype is to cut out the middle men. The internet
is so good nowdays that you can bypass the telephone operators that
take a chunk everytime you pass along their wires. A great idea for
cheap communication! I totally recommend it!

Wombat

On 2/28/06, terry l. ridder <terrylr at blauedonau.com> wrote:
> hello;
>
> just thought i would pass this on. i need to contact hawkmoor.com, in
> exeter, devon, uk by telephone. well landline telephone was more than i
> was prepared to pay. i found http://www.skype.com, which not only allows
> free voice calls between skype users, but also for 0.021 us cents per
> minute calls to landline telephones in the uk. so my telephone call to
> the uk was only 0.32 us cents. the sound quality of the call was
> excellent.
>
> i was able to contact hawkmoor.com about their field kitchens.
>
> btw, skype runs on windows, linux, and macos-x.
>
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> terry l. ridder ><>
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