Nigel L wrote: > Many will be aware of a war being waged by AOL against an alternative > chat/messaging client. This is at the same time AOL launches legal > proceedings for anti-competitive practices...
I have not really completely formed an opinion on this yet (I'm going to wait for this to run on a bit longer), but so far I'm supporting AOL. I mean it's their network. Do they have some obligation to allow 3rd party applications to undermine their system? They have created their own IM network, and I think that they have the right to ask users to use the AOL software. I don't think it's anti-competitive.
