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Yahoo Shutting Out Third-Party IM Clients?
prostoalex writes "Following the lead of America Online's previous attempts and MSN's actions, Yahoo is planning an update that may cut out third-party providers like Trillian or Gaim. If you're a current Trillian user with a valid Yahoo ID, you probably noticed the new welcome message: 'Yahoo! is upgrading to its newest version of Yahoo! Messenger on September 24, 2003. The upgrade is part of an ongoing process to continually enhance the overall quality of the Yahoo! Messenger service for our millions of users'." Update: 09/18 01:17 GMT by S : Trillian has just released a patch that updates the IM software "...to the newest Yahoo! and MSN protocols, to remove the recent upgrade messages."
Because not being able to chat with people you could chat with previously is a great sign of "continual enhancement"
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
And thus, through stubborn obstinance, open standards will gain acceptance!!! Everyone will be able to talk with everyone else!
never mind i am drunk and work for sco
shuts out third party clients, people may think they're really sick and won't patronize them.
If two, two providers do it, in harmony, people may think they're faggots and won't patronize either of them.
And it three providers do it, three, can you imagine? Three providers shutting out third party clients. People might think it's an orginization.
And if all, all the IM providers do it, people might think it's a movement.
And that's just what it is people. The third party IM client anti-trust masacree movement.
Sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.
With feeling.
KFG
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Sure, lots of hot chicks use it, and they all want to give you exxxtreme hot sex.
I don't use trillian no more since I got a trojan virus for updating to trillian pro.. (Ok, ok I didn't Upgrade more like steal it off kazaa)
Just to let you know, I am laughing my ass off at you. If you are going to steal software, at least be smart enough to steal a copy of Norton AV first, keep it updated, and scan the shit out of everything before running it. Oh yea, and get the fuck off kazaa. My god, like its that hard to learn to use USENET?
Kids today are so fucking stupid and lazy. Too impatient to learn the basics first, just want to get some free stuff. No interest in hacking or learning, just free crap. Gimme gimme gimme.
I take my first comment back. Keep using kazaa. The viruses will help keep you off the internet, which is a good thing for the rest of us.
I know exactly what it's asking. I'm just annoyed that it's asking me.
Finding a file in a directory and looking up a key in a hash table are two things that computers just can't do without human intervention. Without you there to carefully hold your poor computer's hand and guide it through the entire process, it would just get the vapors.
Also, don't try to use a computer to check if a number is prime. They suck at math too.