> 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.
If anything this show that IM *must* be an Internet standard service, like DNS or e-mail, with no central server.
