I've also heard the same thing. While they would love it if RedHat or
someone provided an AOL client (and support). They've decided that with
the different favors of *nix there would be no WAY they could support
them all with the kind of basic computers help their customers have come
to expect. They also realize that most Linux users would *never* use AOL
so they aren't even going to try for that space. Though everyone knows
that they are still working on the client (a significant number of their
programmers perfer Linux and needed a way to test from their boxes). I
don't think they *ever* intend to release it.
Carl P.
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 15:55, der.hans wrote:
> 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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