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sometimes its about doing the right thing

• jonknee 16y ago
  What about running proprietary IM networks is "doing the right thing"?
  • sewerhorse 16y ago
    Keeping them alive even though they don't rake in any serious money.
    • jonknee 16y ago
      You can be assured they aren't doing it to be nice. For one, that would be against their fiduciary duty. IM networks are used by companies like AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo/Google to keep people coming back to their respective services (which is also why traditionally they weren't big on interoperability). They aren't making money, but do more good than the savings not running the services would bring.
      • dantheman 16y ago
        "For one, that would be against their fiduciary duty" This is completely untrue.
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