Today brings with it some potentially ugly news for Yahoo and Microsoft. America Online has secured a patent for Internet instant messaging services. Filed in September of this year, the patent grants broad ownership rights to the technology, which is used by millions of people to chat quickly and cheaply across the Internet.” (Full text here (http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4775050.htm))AOL responds, “We are Borg. Resistance is futile.”

:m: Peace.

WTF??? Wankers! WANKERS!!!

dont get me started on aol, they are running in second place behind micro$oft for being money grabbing idiots.

what will that mean?

i have all 4 but i hardly use yahoo even tho its on cause no one is on that list

It wont mean anything for us unless micro$oft and yahoo refuse to pay aol.
Its funny how ICQ wasnt mentioned. Maybe works in a different way.

ICQ IS AOL isnt it?

Yup. ICQ is owned by AOL-Time Warner.

:m: Peace.

didnt know that, mind you, i always thought there was something suspicious about it. :eek:

I use Trillian? will 3rd party messager program survive this?!? Aaaaah oh god the @#$%@#$@!

I wouldnt think so, trillian is basically all the messenging clients combined. It isnt a seperate messenging client so i wouldnt think they will need to pay any tariffs that aol set.

Oh yeh, its common knowledge that AOL have tryed to render trillian useless in the past. Trillian always gets adapted to work again. Funny really.

sweeeeeet :cool:

Uses to much RAM on my comp.... and its quite slow.... I just stick to msn

i love it

i HATED how MSN never kept a log and i was talking to people who gave me info i needed latter on it (like phone numbers and addresses, and where and when to meet my GF)

You can always click file>save in the conversation window to save your conversation in MSN Messenger.

this way i dont have to think about it

Originally posted by emulate_this
Uses to much RAM on my comp.... and its quite slow.... I just stick to msn

how much ram do you have> I have 512Mb of PC2100.

A senior source in the Israeli software sector estimated that AOL will avoid filing law suits against its two largest competitors - Microsoft with its MSN Messenger and Yahoo! which develops Yahoo Messenger. "AOL knows such a move would engender a harsh reaction from Internet users, who would see it as an attempt to take over the Internet. For that reason, it is likely that AOL will use the patents as a strategic weapon at least at this stage."

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=14285

*in other words "you scratch my back, we will scratch yours"

Originally posted by emulate_this
Uses to much RAM on my comp.... and its quite slow.... I just stick to msn
Download the newest version.
It uses a paltry 4 mb on mine and I run AOL, MSN YM and ICQ on it.
Whereas JUST YM uses about 15 mb.