{"id":2162,"date":"2002-01-30T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-30T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:47:04","slug":"mega-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"Mega-Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dislike large corporations. That’s why I try to shop at independant stores if I can.<\/p>\n

You’d not beleive how much it irks me that both TSR<\/a> and Hasbro<\/a> are sub-companies of Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now, AOL Time Warner<\/a> is blocking Trillian<\/a> users from using their network. They’re peeved because Trillian beat out their software on C|Net’s<\/a> 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<\/a>, since they’re both AOL<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

We appear to be quite the fiends for being connected. >:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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