I can't beleive they actually did have a version
of aol for linux a long time ago
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Aldrich mewed:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > And is it no fairly common in the W-nn world to find that a new
> > product has just installed an incompatible version of one of the
> > standard DLLs? VBRUN300.DLL appears with virtually every package you
> > install.
> >
> > And, according to an article about this very issue in the late
> > lamented Byte, MS doesn't even use version numbers in its libraries
> > properly, sometimes chaging the code but not the number, sometimes
> > vice-versa.
> >
> >
> And you think M$ is bad about it??? Try AOHell. I'm told
> they make something like 300 registry changes (I'm sure
> some of those are adding stuff specific to their product,
> but...) and AOL 5 is generally incompatible with any other
> internet provider! Makes me VERY glad that AOL isn't
> available for Linux!!! They make so many changes and put
> their own proprietary stuff in over the already proprietary
> M$ stuff that it REALLY screws up Windows worse than it
> already was! :-)
> John
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