DeMoN LaG wrote:
> 
> Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03 Feb 2002:
> 
> > The
> > argument could even be made that clients like Everybuddy are adding
> > value to AOL's network by allowing their client's users to connect
> > with more people...
> 
> Sure, you could make that argument.  You could also argue that me
> downloading pirated, cracked versions of Windows XP is helping Microsoft
> sales because if I had a new OS I'd want to buy new software from MS to
> run on it.  Doesn't matter though.  AOL owns the network, they own the
> servers, they own the right to say "Heck no, your client is no longer
> allowed to use our network!"  I don't understand the controversy over
> this.  MS does the same thing with Hotmail's proprietary interface, and
> with MSN Messanger, why doesn't anyone complain about that?
>

Probably because they're not the ones with the... monopoly.

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