Re:AOL is a success story for the ages (Score 1)

I agree completely. It's pretty sad when you get penalized for being successful. What all you nay sayers are doing is saying that AOL has to let people use their servers and their bandwidth for free!! Why should anyone be allowed to leech on to their system without paying licensing fees or usage fees? What you basically are trying to do is strip away the very foundations this country was built on. This is not a communist nation, it is a Republic. If you work hard to acheive something and become sucessful, why should the masses be able to take that away from you? Hell...just use a different im client if you like. Nobody is forcing you to use AIM. There are many alternatives out there, but in any case, what makes you think you have some sort of God given right to force AOL to allow you to use your software on their servers and soak up their bandwidth without paying for it??? Remember people...things like this are the start of something very bad, and may be the beginning steps to socialism. A country where people that are successful must give away what they have created to the masses?? I don't think so!!! I like America as it is....a Republic!!