too little, too late (Score 1)

Obviously, this move was motivated by the Google Talk threat of open instant messaging network(s). And also obviously, AOL think they can throw sand into the eyes of the OSS community and hide the fine print. This half-hearted "opening up" reminds me of the "open-source" move of Real with their Helix player not opening up their codec. I can only say just another short-sighted greedy company to be washed away sooner or later. And again, THANK YOU GOOGLE!