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Re: Announcement: The Linux Event



A. Arik is one of the first linux users in israel, and very familiar with
the operating system.
B. ICQ _ARE_ now working on licq again (I even considered going to work
there for that).

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>is this a joke? I've been begging his son Arik to port  ICQ to Linux, at
>least commandline, since January of 1997... "it's 3 weeks away from
>finishing, if I can find those three weeks!" was the reply I got. Now
>$350 million and 100 employees later Mirabilis has still no intentions
>of giving the Linux community a propper treatment, even though there's a
>much higher procentage of internet savvy and internet addicted users in
>that group. I don't think a lecture about the importance of users,
>especially in a Linux event, given by a major share owner of Mirabilis
>is in place. I'm forced to use micq for quite some time now and you
>can't imagine how annoying that can be.
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>that said... I'm also sad to point out I will not be at thew mentioned
>event, but I may be moving back to Israel a month or two later... could
>anyone get a Video camera and shoot this for me (and posterity,
>naturally)
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>Thanks, Ira
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