I work as an ISP Tech Support 'Specialist' (I like the ring to that:) Anyways, having AOL 'take over' your computer is bad, but it guarentees that the person will get connected. I have customers in rural areas with god awful phone lines get connected to AOL at rates above 40K. Any other ISP they try just won't work. I personally don't want AOL (or any software) taking over my computer, but it does help get people connected. As for AOL and other ISPs coexisting together, it can happen (even 5.0), and without removing the AOL adapter. All you need to do is make sure that there is only one winsock.dll and wsock32.dll (in the windows directory). After that, everything works. Trevor
While I do believe MS did have monopoly and possibly used its power in that position more so than it should have, I'm not comfortable with the judge's comments. He seems blantanly biased. Heck,/.'s legal consultant even mentioned it. I feel better results would be had if someone more netrual had presided over this case. I don't know, maybe I just have too much faith in the legal system operating the way it was meant to. -Trevor
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I work as an ISP Tech Support 'Specialist' (I like the ring to that :) Anyways, having AOL 'take over' your computer is bad, but it guarentees that the person will get connected. I have customers in rural areas with god awful phone lines get connected to AOL at rates above 40K. Any other ISP they try just won't work. I personally don't want AOL (or any software) taking over my computer, but it does help get people connected. As for AOL and other ISPs coexisting together, it can happen (even 5.0), and without removing the AOL adapter. All you need to do is make sure that there is only one winsock.dll and wsock32.dll (in the windows directory). After that, everything works. Trevor
While I do believe MS did have monopoly and possibly used its power in that position more so than it should have, I'm not comfortable with the judge's comments. He seems blantanly biased. Heck, /.'s legal consultant even mentioned it. I feel better results would be had if someone more netrual had presided over this case. I don't know, maybe I just have too much faith in the legal system operating the way it was meant to. -Trevor