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AOL Won't Enable Instant Messaging Interoperability

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the walled-garden dept.

chill writes "Wired is reporting 'America Online is scaling back efforts to make its popular instant messaging system work with rivals, saying the task has proven too difficult and expensive.' That's funny, they don't seem to have a problem blocking anyone who figures out how to interoperate. Legally, they are not supposed to offer "next gen" IM over Time Warner's cable lines until they can interoperate. We shall see."

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  1. interoperability the PASSPORT to success by oliverthered · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    All microsoft is doing is pushing passport accounts so that it can say 10% of the propulation already has passport account why ujse them for tax returns.

    Nope Microsoft is leveraging another software company to trick people into signing up for passport, there not being kind for the hell of it.

    All really is evil at Microsoft

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    thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  2. Re:Hmmm... by edwdig · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Have you tried gaim's support for other clients? I've only tried the ICQ support, and it's terrible. It only supports a bare minimum of ICQ features, and silently drops messages it doesn't understand (i.e. url messages). Other ICQ users can't check away messages of people using GAIM. GAIM's crap.

  3. Re:A standard interface? by arkanes · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Cause linux users are all godless commies who would block them anyway.