I just had a chat with "Gene" as well. I ask (very politely where) the source code was, informed him that under the GPL he was required to distribute it but then he decided to go offline. Damn, I was having fun!;)
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AOL vs. Trillian
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> After all, they can't just shut down the
> service if it becomes to heavily used to remain > popular right? Oh wait, they can and will.
What on earth are you talking about? How is a user loging in via Trillian or Jabber any different than a user logging in with the official client in terms of resource usage? So how would people using other (better) clients clog up the servers?
> I love this; a company produces a free product,
> does nothing to stop free competition
Apart from buying ICQ (the only real competitor apart from MSN which they couldn't buy) and putting ADs all over it so that it becomes almost unuasble you mean?
> Please note the lack of court proceedings
They'd lose, or at least they'd generate a lot of publicity which would help out the competion (who I'm sure would do something like have AIM modules downloadable from servers in other countrys of something simial to sidestep a ban)
> Albeit, I've been an AOL user since before they
> allowed access to the 'net, so I'm certainly
> biased.
as has allready been said you can allready do this on some phones. Also, in the uk at least, almost all phones will display the name (if it's in your address book) or number of the person calling.
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I just had a chat with "Gene" as well. I ask (very politely where) the source code was, informed him that under the GPL he was required to distribute it but then he decided to go offline. Damn, I was having fun! ;)
> After all, they can't just shut down the
;) Sorry :)
> service if it becomes to heavily used to remain > popular right? Oh wait, they can and will.
What on earth are you talking about? How is a user loging in via Trillian or Jabber any different than a user logging in with the official client in terms of resource usage? So how would people using other (better) clients clog up the servers?
> I love this; a company produces a free product,
> does nothing to stop free competition
Apart from buying ICQ (the only real competitor apart from MSN which they couldn't buy) and putting ADs all over it so that it becomes almost unuasble you mean?
> Please note the lack of court proceedings
They'd lose, or at least they'd generate a lot of publicity which would help out the competion (who I'm sure would do something like have AIM modules downloadable from servers in other countrys of something simial to sidestep a ban)
> Albeit, I've been an AOL user since before they
> allowed access to the 'net, so I'm certainly
> biased.
And very probably clinical insane
Read the notice on the site. It's explained there...
as has allready been said you can allready do this on some phones. Also, in the uk at least, almost all phones will display the name (if it's in your address book) or number of the person calling.