I dislike large corporations. That’s why I try to shop at independant stores if I can.

You’d not beleive how much it irks me that both TSR and Hasbro are sub-companies of Microsoft.

And now, AOL Time Warner is blocking Trillian users from using their network. They’re peeved because Trillian beat out their software on C|Net’s review. Trillian rated as the number one instant messaging client, period. So, two days later, Trillian can no longer connect to AIM’s network. There was a fix, and a new version. Whoops, fix doesn’t work any more. Open warfare? I wonder how long they’ll take to start doing similar things with ICQ, since they’re both AOL products. Oh, lookee, we don’t have to see your ads. And the software is free. They take donations, but they don’t require them. And guess what! Users can help program plug-ins for new messaging client software as it comes up!

Good god damn. People on the Trillian forums have started boycotting anything to do with AOL Time Warner altogether. Ranging even to TV shows and movies.

We appear to be quite the fiends for being connected. >:)