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Re:AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia) by zavulon on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @11:22AM (#1301749)
It's not crap. It's the most popular IM service in Russia and a whole bunch of other countries. I use it daily to talk to friends and business colleagues in Europe, and ICQ is the only service they use (although more technologically-oriented use Skype)
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Re:AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia) by c00p3r on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @11:52AM (#1301830)
When a lot of people are using something it does not prove that it is not a crap.

PHP is the best example. =)

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Re:AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia) by raquo on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @01:59PM (#1302187)
Investors are not benevolent technology incubators. They need returns on their money, and the quality of the software side of ICQ is largerly irrelevant here.
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Re:AOL sell ICQ to DST (Russia) by c00p3r on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:30AM (#1304033)
Returns on ICQ? Did they even requested the data about how many users signs in and number of messages per day for resent 5 years? =)
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