AIM And ICQ to be Integrated

sam writes "According to this InfoWorld article the next version of America Online's Instant Messenger will allow users to communicate with ICQ users in a move that will bridge the gap between the company's two popular chat services. Maybe AOL finally woke up and realized people were using IM clients that have both in them." I still use only IRC for messaging, but this is gonna make things easier for a lot of users.

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wtf are you talking about?

[RelliK]

There have occasionally been UNIX knockoffs, like the vastly inferior command line "talk" implementation

Uhhm, no. talk has absolutely nothing to do with ICQ. It predates ICQ by at least a decade.

Programs like Trillian, that do what the author of this article suggests have been having a difficult time lately because they steal Yahoo, AOL, and Microsofts intellectual property

Please clarify what "intellectual property" do programs like Trillian "steal". Also, take an introductory law course. Until that time, just shut up. You are making a fool out of yourself.

They saw a duplication of effort in their own company and decided to stop it.

Wrong again. See my other post on the subject.

In short, this guy is an ignorant moron.

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Re:Doesn't this already work?

[Suppafly]

haha.. have you honestly not heard about jabber before? Do you expect links everytime someone mentions msn or yahoo messenger? If you can click a link to find out, you can type in jabber.org in a webbrowser and find out too..

Re:Doesn't this already work?

[Directrix1]

There is no such thing as common knowledge on the internet dumbass. Back off.