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Originally Posted by TTR_loves_Mittens  God, why does everyone hate AOL so much? I swear, since I got this new computer, I have never gotten the connection dropped, and I've had this baby for like 1-3 years.
And for a while, I've been letting it run overnight and in the day, and still no connection drop.
Also, I'm not using Gaim or Trillian because I'd rather have a free product then using an opensource (Or GPL, whatever it is) for a free product. I always though GPL and opensource was only for alternatives to commercial products. Once I move (Which will take a while, unfortunately) I'm going to use a different ISP, but for now, I'm stuck with AOL. And don't say "Why can't you just change your ISP?", because I'm still a kid and my SISTER pays for my internet (Thank god we have low monthly fee and not by rate.)
EDIT: I'm such a bum :/ |
No dropped connections? Congratulations, that's exactly normal!
Why does AOL suck? Speed. Or rather, lack thereof. Not to mention the standard problems with dialup. But even for dialup, AOL is pretty slow.
Oh, and how about all that resource-eating crap they give you in their inefficient programs?
Open source as an alternative to commercial products...? Firefox is open source. Open source just means you can get in and do stuff directly to it. Commercial programs are generally not open source because they want to charge people to get the fancy upgrades and tools. Keeping control over the source code lets the company control what its users can do.
As for payment... uh... most decent ISPs use monthly rates. I can't think of any that use rates based on usage. Unless you're talking use of the phone line, which can be avoided by not using dialup.