>It is not possible to use AOL's proprietary service with Unix and Linux.
This is not true. GNU/Linux users are free to use their machines
to access any proprietary systems they wish to. THere is no prohibition in
the GPL against using proprietary services - just against linking free with
non-free code in the same program.
As for the AOL messenger - there are one or 2 (gpl I think)
GNU/Linux compatable ones out there. They just hit my announcement boxes
last week, but if you are already an experienced aol user, you might be in
a perfect position to do some finall debugging!
.Tami
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>On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> I have been an AOL user for five or six years. My username, etc., is well
>> established among my colleagues and friends. I would like to continue with
>> AOL after I install Mandrake 7.1. Can this be done? Is anyone using AOL
>> with Linux? Where can I get some "How to" information?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
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