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[GorbGuy]

I have been a Yahoo IM'er since about 1995, shortly after they launched their IM services. I think at the time there were probably only about 50 other users of the service. For around 8 years now, I have been enjoying Yahoo's services, as I have many aquantances that specifically use it for all IM purposes. Now, fast forward 8 years. I have friends on most of the major IM's, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, AIM, Jabber, etc... So I pick up a copy of Trillian Pro and life is great, I no longer need about 6 different apps sitting idle and hogging up resources on my computer, simply for IM purposes. Now, fast forward to earlier this month, when MSN finally pulls the stick outta their butt and says that they are finally going to update their 3 or 4 year old IM protocol. Trillian says hey! No problem, we can have a patch for that available once we get the correct info from M$. So, M$ and Cerulean Studios (the Trillian guys,) start talking of licencing deals, and M$ releases the protocol standards for their new MSN. Presto, Trillian is set for future use on MSN's network. No big deal. So, now Yahoo is on board, for "security reasons" and isn't too privy on giving away the standards to any third party IM suite.
Now, for my rant. This royally pisses me off. Here I have been, a loyal user of Yahoo's IM services for 8 friggin years, and have gotten dozens of other people to "Yahoo!" through out the years, all while they are making money off me from the advertisers that use Yahoo's portal. Yahoo get's the kickbacks from showing advertisers "looky at how many IM users use our system" and I get a fairly decent IM tool. Sounds fair to me. But now, they have yanked the cord and said "piss on your third party people until we make money from you, your IM users, and still from our advertisers." WTF!" And further more, industry "guru's" are agreeing with them saying such stupid things as:

[Darkshadow666]

Hey Gorby don't advertise for them then and take the {{edited}} out of your choices...Those dirty rotten bastards

[Balkur]

So thats whats up with trillian's patch I'll be joining suit, i've already moved my bioware account data from yahoo to my real email as i suspected as much.