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And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

So just think about this, ladies and gentlemen.

Wasn't too long ago that we had that interview with Joshua P. Warren, where Chris loses his Skype network connection.

And for the last two segments of the show, we had to do it with a landline.

He had to be on a landline.

And that was adding insult to injury.

Okay?

It's a peer-to-peer communications product. You can talk from

PC to PC, Mac, Windows, whatever, free of charge. If you want to use regular phones,

you pay a small fee. They've got hundreds of millions of users. Now, unfortunately, when you're

doing things like we do, which is trying to do group conversations,

sometimes Skype is flaky.

So guess what happened this week?

Microsoft is going to pay $8.5 billion to buy Skype.

And if you thought Skype was bad before, what do you think, Chris?

Oh, boy, it's not going to be free for much longer.

I think they'll have to make it free.

They have to keep it free. The question is not how they're going to monetize it. The question is,

will all the people from Skype, all the major developers and executives leave the company?

That's what we have to worry about. Yeah. Well, it's too big to fail right now. There's quite a number of people now that are switching over to Skype, and it is very

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