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   No One Wants AOL

   

   Anarchy_Creator, Dec 6th, 2005 @ 9:26pm

   
   

   Honestly, I myself wouldn't pay $10 bucks for AOL inc.

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   Re: No One Wants AOL

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 6th, 2005 @ 10:37pm

   
   

   id buy it for 10$, just to own it and strip all the ads out of aim and release it like that

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   why

   

   Anarchy_Creator, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 2:59am

   
   

   But why?
   There's no money to be made without all the craptacular ads.
   You'd be taking a huge loss.
   You'd be better off inheriting AOL then opensourcing AIM. Whoever created AOL dies, you get AOL, you opensource AOL, Everyone wins.

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   Chris H, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 5:12am

   
   

   If you own AOL stock I'd suggest selling. Verizon's new $15 768k DSL is starting to steal customers. I know of a few AOL users who have already made the switch. As word of mouth travels it will only get worse for AOL. Unless you're a total technofool (like my Grandmother) switching to a service that is always on, doesn't need a second phone line, is $8/month cheaper, and about 13 times faster is a no brainer.
   
   I might need to talk to my Grandmother again about putting effort into learning how to use a separate email and web client.

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   Riley, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 7:06am

   
   

   This whole AOL thing was like a game of chicken where MS/Google/Yahoo were trying to get one of the other guys to pony up some serious money for the company by pretending they were interested. It would probably benefit MS most by taking away some Google revenue and boosting their search service to more respectable numbers, but AOL's business is in decline anyway and will quickly become irrelevant no matter who they sell or partner with.

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   Re: why

   

   Dr.Apathy, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 12:10pm

   
   

   Seems to me that if you could buy AOL for ten dollars, then you could pretty much do pretty much anything with it. Just downsize your staff, and bring in a couple of new subscribers, and your expenses are covered. You coul open source AIM, hell, open source every software asset they own (winamp, icq, etc). It would make no difference.

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