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Reminds me of the story around AIM/MSN wars from back in the day. http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5635488/msn-messenger-vs-aol-aim-chat-wars http://www.theve

Reminds me of the story around AIM/MSN wars from back in the day. http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5635488/msn-messenger-vs-aol-aim-chat-wars http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5635488/msn-messenger-vs-a... https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/ https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/

pyre 11y ago
Or how AOL's Oscar protocol got updated at one point to start requesting chunks of the AOL IM binary as authentication against open sources clients (because they couldn't distribute AOL's binary with their client).
- khc 11y ago
  Do you have a source for this?