Re: ICQ

[Travis Cole <tcole@iname.com>]

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On 29-Jul-97 Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
>> [cut]
>> > ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public
>> > license or source code available.  The problem with IRC is that it simply
>> [cut]
>> 
>> AND I don't believe that it will remain free once it gets out of the beta
>> testing phase...give it away free to get them hooked, then start
>> charging...
>
>
>They are wanting to start charging $10 a month once they are out of beta.
>Last I heard, October or November.
> 
>>

They have 2,000,000 users now, that should decrease the numbers really quick. 

If they are going to charge that much, then I don't really care for an ICQ
version for Linux.  But I still would like a program that allows me to tell if
my freiends are online and then message or chat them.

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Date: 29-Jul-97
Time: 16:15:13
640Kb should be enough for anybody
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