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AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover
nutznboltz writes "According to the Peng project website AOL has sent them a cease-and-desist letter claiming that Peng, a GPLed software project is commerically exploiting AOL and has until Oct 15th to hand over the pengaol.com domain name." Update: 10/12 17:45 GMT by T : As several readers have pointed out, the domain name in question is actually pengaol.org, rather than pengaol.com.
Go pick on someone your own size. Gaim, Peng, Jabber, etc., seems like AOL just likes to harass non-profit, open-source projects. Come on, these people are working (mostly for free) on the software, giving out the software for free, and releasing the source code too. AOL should be ashamed of itself for for harassing people who are just trying to help their fellow man.
Take a closer look at those software projects:
gAIM: A pirate-client (as much as yahoo messenger or msn messenger) on the valuable AIM network.
Jabber: A program attemting, also, to hack into the AIM network.
(Remember, it's not just 'free software' that AOL is going after; they're also picking at anyone at all who tries to "hack" into AIM.)
Peng: well, heck. It's a Linux "dialer" that intentionally allows people to use AOL's servers to connect in a way that AOL doesn't intend, to use them as a common ISP.