i think there's not been a day that AOL has tried and trillian has released a new patch. today we see a shift in tactics from AOL.

i'm not taking sides, just want to know your thoughts.


http://www.trillian.cc/

It is AOLs network and they can do what they wish with it. I don't see a problems with it at all. I would do the same thing.

While I don't like it, it is their service. They sell advertising on their client and they can't do that with trillian. While I hate the bastages, they do have every right to block out trillian and any other 3rd party program making use of THEIR servers. I'm not sure what trillian is changing in the program, but the updates are annoying and if they want to fight this, they should have some kind of automatic update that replaces a string or whatever is needed to connect. Redownloading the whole program over and over again doesn't do much for anyone.

Not on this. They are fully within their rights, even responsibilities to control access. All of us do that to one degree or another and for anyone to start trying to restrict those rights and take away our discretion would be a serious matter.

whatever AOL doing is may not be wrong but this is not ethical and as far as I am concerned I am no more on AOL service and don't use it at all. :o

and what about AOL when they file suits against Microsoft for doing same things with them and others, like Microsoft blocked msn.com for some days for non IE browsers.

now how's that, msn.com is Microsoft web site and they can do what ever they want with it. then why it bothers to AOL and why they filed suit against Microsoft ?

:mad:

I believe that as a condition to the merger between AOL and timewarner, AOL was supposed to open up their IM service to competitors. I think that it is hipcritical for AOL to be suing microsoft when they are doing essentially the same thing. You don't see Yahoo, MSN, or ICQ doing it.

>I believe that as a condition to the merger between AOL and timewarner, AOL was supposed to open up their IM service to competitors..

I believe that condition only applies with video, so until IM has video you're outta luck. :o

Actually, I believe you are wrong (i think). The following outlines the agreement from AOL's point of view.
http://www.fcc.gov/csb/aolim1.pdf

They want it all just as badly as Microsoft does. But they keep fumbling with anything outside their basic services. For example, they had tremendous opportunity to capitalize on Netscape, but even they continue with IE and Netscape looses share daily.

wasn't a condition of the merger being that if AOL incorporated video into IM then they'd have to open the network? i believe they conviniently changed their minds on that shortly after the merger went through.

oh well. we'll have to see what happens.

Personally I agree with some others here in saying that it is their network and they can do with it as they wish. People don't really have to use them if they don't like things.

I personally agree with the statement that it is their network and they can do what they wish, but in this case I dont see the point. They go to all the trouble of blocking a Microsoft based multi chat client but they do nothing in regards to it's Linux counterpart. I have been using the Linux version for about 1+ years and have had no problems connecting to any of the chat's networks. I guess it's because Linux as a desktop doesn't exist yet but try explaining that to Amazon.com.

The funny thing is Trillian isn't backing down and I hope it they dont.

The Linux version of AIM made by AOL has no ads :).