If Netscape adds ICQ as an install option that is one thing... however
the idea might have flaws. I think the business model ICQ takes is that
alpha and beta version are always free and the final product one pays
for. So in fact one will never ship a final version of ICQ with
netscape... would such a move bring netscape back into the pay for a
browser business? As far as I can tell AOL seems to be keeping its hands
off of ICQ (for the most part). But I would wonder why AOL would want to
ship ICQ along with AIM. To me that seems counter productive. (not to
mention ICQ dosn't mesh with other aol technologies)
John Vandenberg wrote:
> ICQ could be just one component of the net installer and provided the user
> can select only ICQ without downloading all of Netscape as well, I doubt
> anyone would have a problem. This would increase the browsers profile at
> least. They could also use the installer to break up ICQ into several parts
> so one doesn't need to download 5.1MB just to send a message.
>
> John
