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by smaili 3107 days ago
RIP

On a side note, it would have been great if rather than discontinue AIM, they open sourced it and put it in the hands of the community. It feels somewhat wasteful to close the doors on such an iconic piece of software.

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It takes effort (ie $$) to open source software including making sure it doesn’t include libraries or other code licensed from third parties.