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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (27304)	7/28/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: Grant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Question for the thread..... Does AOL have an alliance with Liberate Tech (LBRT) ?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (27304)	7/28/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: tang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

I used to be a player in MSFT's game zone to play their 'GO' game but it has only a handful people there and not very many are good players until someone mentioned another site which has 200 - 600 people play the live 'GO' game day and night and I switched to that site and never returned to MSN's game zone. This is the same situation in the instant messager environment, without large audenience you can't sell products or commercials, MSFT and others see the potential a bit late and try to grab the market but don't know how to get participants because most people are in AIM and ICQ and their friends will join them in AIM and ICQ because they want to 'talk' to their friends, it is like 'snowball', it gets bigger as it rolls, MSFT and other see the fact so they try to lure AIM's and ICQ's customers' interest away from their software, this is like OS/2 tried to get Window's customer and failed, same thing. MSFT has no case using this argument in court because AOL does not force anyone to use AIM or ICQ, does not threaten anyone with it's power, AOL simply says, 'get your own customers yourself', or 'talk to me before you inquire my customer', I don't see anything wrong with that. Most important here is that AIM and ICQ are free for downloading, I am not an AOL member but my daughter use AIM (before ICQ is acquired by AOL) but AOL did not ask me for anything in return. As someone mentioned earlier today, people joined AOL not because AOL is an ISP, they are willing to pay $21/month because they 'heard' their friends have AOL and they all love it. I am not an AOL member but I invest in AOL heavily, as an investor I would like to see AOL holds ICQ and AIM as their snowball just like MSFT holds Window. If ATT stikes an deal with AOL, it has to deal the fact about ATHM first because it means 'death' to ATHM. If ATT cuts ISP price they must believe they can get more revenue from e-commerce or ads because their network is a money losing business already and if they cust the price to half and if not enough members join them ... ATT will never be a free ISP because there is no other phone company to let them share the connection revenue as British did, and AOL's management is very alert and flexible, they'll figure a stategy to deal with any incoming attack. As an AOL investor, I do e-commerce through AOL to get to AMZN or others goods...