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Re:We are in the AOL days of social networking by jonknee on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:01PM (#2077157)
IM still hasn't made any serious money...
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Re:We are in the AOL days of social networking by imaginator on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:02PM (#2077161)
sometimes its about doing the right thing
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Re:We are in the AOL days of social networking by jonknee on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:17PM (#2077220)
What about running proprietary IM networks is "doing the right thing"?
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Re:We are in the AOL days of social networking by sewerhorse on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:35PM (#2077314)
Keeping them alive even though they don't rake in any serious money.
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Re:We are in the AOL days of social networking by jonknee on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:39PM (#2077336)
You can be assured they aren't doing it to be nice. For one, that would be against their fiduciary duty. IM networks are used by companies like AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo/Google to keep people coming back to their respective services (which is also why traditionally they weren't big on interoperability). They aren't making money, but do more good than the savings not running the services would bring.
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Re:We are in the AOL days of social networking by dantheman on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:44PM (#2077623)
"For one, that would be against their fiduciary duty"

This is completely untrue.

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