This is sad. For companies like Yahoo and AOL, I wish I could just take their messenger properties, AIM and Messenger and make an advanced messaging application

This is sad. For companies like Yahoo and AOL, I wish I could just take their messenger properties, AIM and Messenger and make an advanced messaging application with the latest encryption technologies, self hosted/federated, and open source. I know there isn't money in that market, but I would just love to simply resurrect those applications.