Re: ICQ

[Christopher Jason Morrone <cmorrone@UDel.Edu>]

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Riku Saikkonen wrote:
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> What I'm trying to say is that ICQ for Linux would be no better than
> fingerd+talkd+... for Win95. ICQ has nothing new; it's just MS's proprietary
> implementation of things that finger, talk, IRC, and friends have done for
> years.
> 
> And ICQ is not free, and likely never will be. The client may be free of
> charge right now, but an ICQ server isn't. Not all want to use MS's
> centralised server; for example, if you're on a network not connected to the
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Just for the record, ICQ isn't by MS.  Its by Mirabilis (www.mirabilis.com).

Its just that the client is only AVAILABLE for MS OS's right now.  Soon to
be Mac and java also...


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