Trillian is a instant messenger program ( www.trillian.cc ) which gives users the ability to connect to AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and ICQ messenger services. They have a free version and a paid pro version of the program with many more options. They charge $25 for the pro version, which I think is highly over rated. The Trillian folks are depending on 3rd party services to provide them with the inner workings of their programs. With any tweak from these 3rd party services, and Trillian could be useless on a certain protocol.
I’ll give you an example. Today Trillian started complaining about Yahoo Messenger. Afterwards anytime you try to connect to Yahoo via Trillian, it would crash. Trillian says they are working on a fix. Somehow I think it is a bad business model to depend on 3rd party services to make your program work. 3rd party services go down; change protocol; anything…. If AOL wanted to, they could ban all Trillian users. The pro users would be out $25.
News article about Yahoo Blocking Trilian
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