Sometimes the government is so ridiculous. One of the conditions of the FCC accepting the AOL/Time-Warner merger was open access to AOL’s instant messaging services — when AOL combines IM with broadband services. Ugh. What the hell does that mean? In the meantime, big corporate players like Yahoo and Microsoft have supposedly completed a unified IM standard. Why didn’t they use an existing standard? Perhaps their system will be unified but not open, which certainly won’t do anyone any good.
Sometimes the government is so ridiculous. One of the conditions of the FCC accepting the AOL/Time-Warner merger was open access to AOL’s instant messaging services — when AOL combines IM with broadband services. Ugh. What the hell does that mean? In the meantime, big corporate players like Yahoo and Microsoft have supposedly completed a unified IM standard. Why didn’t they use an existing standard? Perhaps their system will be unified but not open, which certainly won’t do anyone any good.
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