Having Yahoo change their protocol once is small compared to what things used to be like. When I first started using trillian, long long ago when there was only one version of trillian and it was completely free. AOL varied its protocol almost daily in attempt to block third party clients. Ultimatly it failed, due to the perserverence of the Cerulean team. Things used to be a lot lot worse. Its not like we didnt know it was comming a month in advance either; Yahoo even warned us, we those annoying IM ads.
If yahoo truely wanted to block all third party clients, I believe it wouild resort to varying its protocol similar to what AOL did.
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A mistake that actually turned up as a feature? Who would have thought ;)
Having Yahoo change their protocol once is small compared to what things used to be like. When I first started using trillian, long long ago when there was only one version of trillian and it was completely free. AOL varied its protocol almost daily in attempt to block third party clients. Ultimatly it failed, due to the perserverence of the Cerulean team. Things used to be a lot lot worse. Its not like we didnt know it was comming a month in advance either; Yahoo even warned us, we those annoying IM ads. If yahoo truely wanted to block all third party clients, I believe it wouild resort to varying its protocol similar to what AOL did.
It seems like all NASA wants to do is reinvent the wheel, unfortuanatly their wheel is square.