>Of course I have too much self respect to actually USE AOL, but I see they're finally discovered what their services are worth now.
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>http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_to_Go_Free_in_September/1154534145


It's a basic repositioning of the company. Instead of making their money from subscribers, a market they have more or less saturated, they want to follow a strategy much closer to Yahoo's -- function as a high volume web portal and make their money from ads. I have no idea whether it will work but it will be interesting to watch. It's rare to see a big company change their strategy so radically.

Here's my off the wall theory: they exhausted all combinations of passwords on those free AOL starter CDs. (Kidding! I think....)