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AOL Selling AIM Gateway/Listener To Employers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-we-must-hear-all dept.

PizzaFace writes "After pushing free instant messaging to more than 100,000,000 users, AOL is now selling AIM-monitoring software to businesses that want to monitor and control the messaging of their employees. AIM Enterprise Gateway will reportedly sell for about $35/employee/year."

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  1. Re: AOL's business plan by dameron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Give away AIM for free
    2. Charge companies $35/user to monitor AIM
    3. Sell un-monitored "AIM Platinum" for $50
    4. Sell "AIM Platinum" monitor for $100/user

    Someone needs to write OSS that monitors AIM connections for $0/user. Oh what changes we'd see in AOL's client then...! "Protect your Privacy! Unmonitorable AIM Platinum - GOLD EDITION!"

    Of course writing such software would seem kinda evil to most slashdotters, and far too proactive. If it stops being profitable to rob people of their rights and privacy, corporations will stop doing it.

    -dameron