Re:What's the big deal- what advertisements? (Score 1)

Having used one of the "approved" AIM clients for quite some time now I can say that I've never once seen an advertisement that wasn't simply begging you to sign up for AOL in return for however many hundreds of free hours they were offering at the time. Given this, you can't really say that they're losing any advertising revenue since they aren't getting any to begin with. I sincerely doubt a significant number of people have signed up for AOL because of those advertisements in the AIM clients.