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Story: Yahoo IM to shut out Trillian

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I believe Microsoft and Yahoo's anti-competitive approach to 3rd party integrators like Trillian is despicable, and is bordering on illegal. It is tragic that after all these years of compatibility wars and so-called cooperation between the dominant vendors on w3 and IEEE and other standards bodies, that we appear to have learned nothing about open systems, compatibility and the right of the consumer to choose how they use a service.

It appears that once a vendor feels they are in a leading position, they think they are legally entitled to block all competition in any way possible .... even if it actually harms their customers.

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