This report by JonKatz on slashdot is the way i think about the
AOL/Netscape conglomerate.
http://slashdot.org/features/98/11/23/1248251.shtml
I think Anthony Hopkins said it best in Legends of the Fall* when he screwed up his face and expelled those legendary words "fuckem".
*(One of the great libertarian movies of our decade
<http://us.imdb.com/Title?Legends+of+the+Fall+(1994)>
Read the story below and switch your service AWAY from the big guys: they will wreck the net if you don't.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/june97/21st/netpricing970612.html