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Roland
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Join Date: Nov 2004
 
2005-02-20, 07:49

Switching to mac soon
, but I am a little sad that iChat doesn't support ICQ or AIM.
Would Apple have to pay royalty fees to include these features or do you think
that we'll see them included in Tiger?
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Noel
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Chicago
 
2005-02-20, 08:14

I'm hoping for MSN support myself.

And no, they wouldn't need to pay royalty fees, 'cause otherwise Adium wouldn't exist (or at least wouldn't be free).
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chucker
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: near Bremen, Germany
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2005-02-20, 08:37

Umm, iChat does support AIM, and through its OSCAR gateway, ICQ (in limited ways), too.

Microsoft does ask for royalties for third-parties to include MSN support, however, they have so far not fought against Libgaim's MSN implementation (which Adium, Proteus and others use). Trillian has, IIRC, paid Microsoft royalties.
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Baylor8306
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: TX
 
2005-02-20, 10:40

iChat AV is cool for some stuff, but if you aren't going to use the AV part then just go with something like Adium, I love it and all my friends are envious
http://www.adiumx.com
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omem
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Portugal
 
2005-02-20, 16:18

I prefer Proteus
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Brad
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2005-02-20, 16:27

What chucker said.

iChat's primary network is the AIM network. ICQ users are on the AIM network.
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