AOL Opens AIM Protocol and Some Source Code
This took me by surprise. AOL has long been a closed lip, closed source company…usually they just leave people high and dry without any information. Now I’d guess gaim and trillian can expland their working feature set to include file transfers, etc.
So what is their motivation to open up? Is is pressure from GoogleTalk? Are they worried that Micro$oft will lock them out of the handset market with their next gen Windows Mobile + MSN client? Maybe its Skypebay thats worrying them, or the cellular companies building SIP networks.
Whatever it is, I am very very happy to see this and I applaude the manager who made this decision. A few more good deeds like these and I may forgive them for killing Nullsoft Winamp, Netscape and Mirabilis ICQ.