SKYPE illustrates network economics in the purest form: free connections within the network become more valuable to each user as more users sign up. Because of the system's peer-to-peer design, loosely related to the Kazaa file-sharing program that Mr. Zennstrom and Skype's other co-founder, Janus Friis, invented four years ago, the system scales well - that is, it doesn't bog down as more users join. The peer-to-peer design also allows it to work behind most Internet firewalls.
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Posted by johndan at September 6, 2004 10:55 AM
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I saw a review on downloads.com that says the voices will stutter a little if the computer is doing anything in the background. Does that include music being played or using Word at the same time, for instance?
Posted by: Douglas McMeen at March 15, 2005 04:21 PM