mmm...without either bashing MS for being MS, or denying that Case wants to build a giant empire of AOL himself, it's worth pointing out that MS's call for "standards" is truly hypocritical, since they didn't exactly open up their messenger to AOL users in the way they opened up AIM to MS users. This is predation, pure and simple, and would remain so even if MS didn't have a track record of similar kinds of behavior.
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mmm...without either bashing MS for being MS, or denying that Case wants to build a giant empire of AOL himself, it's worth pointing out that MS's call for "standards" is truly hypocritical, since they didn't exactly open up their messenger to AOL users in the way they opened up AIM to MS users. This is predation, pure and simple, and would remain so even if MS didn't have a track record of similar kinds of behavior.