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    "title": "Skype: Monetization, or Escaping the trap of 1999",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2006/12/14/skype-monetization-or-escaping-the-trap-of-1999/",
    "datePublished": "2006-12-14",
    "dateModified": "2006-12-14",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Around the blogs, there are a number of folks talking about Skype making people pay for SkypeOut calls. Guess what? Everywhere else in the world, you have always had to…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Skype: Monetization, or Escaping the trap of 1999

Around the blogs, there are a number of folks talking about Skype making people pay for SkypeOut calls.

Guess what? Everywhere else in the world, you have always had to do this. So I don't understand what the problem is.

I know that the QoS will improve on SkypeOut once the feeloaders are gone. Free is good, but you get what you pay for.

Those people who think free is a sustainable business model are either selling ads to pay the bills, or falling into the 1999 trap all over again.