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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Linux and AOL
Am 29. Jun, 2002 schwätzte Richard L. Proctor so:

> You might wnat to have a look here...
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-244438.html?legacy=cnet


That's from Aug 2000. I've talked to people from AOL more recently than that
and they suggest corporate policy is to ignore GNU/Linux. It's not the market
they want and it's a small market.

Best bet to connect to AOL from GNU/Linux would be to try to get it working
under WINE and send AOL bug reports.

Even better would be to get people to move to a better service provider. If
AOL sees their customer base leaving because there's no mechanism to use
them as an ISP from GNU/Linux they'll start considering GNU/Linux as a valid
target platform.

ciao,

der.hans
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