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Okay, I don’t mind seeing AOL get busted in the chops. They’re the Evil Empire on Training Wheels, as far as I’m concerned. I just wonder why stories like this<\/a> don’t happen to M$.<\/p>\n

Probably because M$ simply rolls their own technology, regardless of copyright and anti-trust issues, while AOL tries to buy it. Contracts are a lot easier to nail people on than the specific vagueries of Redmond’s behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I don’t mind seeing AOL get busted in the chops. They’re the Evil Empire on Training Wheels, as far as I’m concerned. I just wonder why stories like this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2024,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/25\/so_easy_to_use.html","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":0},"title":"So easy to use, no wonder it’s Number 1!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Mar-02 3:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When AOL merged with Time-Warner, everyone in the conglomerate's various divisions was told they had to use AOL for their business e-mail. 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