Shoutbox

I agree they have the right to do that or to make Redmond explode in a nice termonuclear blast, but to have the right to do a thing doesn't mean that doing that thing is right...



Really don't think people not wanting to make a server is the problem, eMule and Cia have a lot of free servers and no one charges for them,  and so does Jabber and so on, and I really doubt if I made a MSN server, M$ allowed me to connect mine with theirs, and in that case I would prefer to make a better protocol instead of MS's.
(What about IRC? Will EFNet people worry if I use XChat, or mIRC? )

The only purpose of these free programs is to allow people to connect  with that people, so they support ICQ people, MSN people, Yahoo people and mymother'smessenger people. I haven't heard ICQ complaining, and its client is far more recharged than MSN's. 

If M$ wants profit, make better products, lower the prices, and MS, don't blame 2xx persons are not watching my "MSN Extra Storage" crap, just see what are YOU doing wrong. Perhaps if you made a damned official client for Linux, people wouldn't have to use a non-ad-full client. But ooh, people going to use Linux, people not using my Windows... my precious Windows... but, why should they go together ? Windows is an OS and Messenger is a IM program. Forcing the two things together seems something that is not very loable.

But you have the right, you have it, and you'll do it. Then you'll charge for Messenger, and when people moves onto a better thing, you'll say "It's ... er... fault of Linux, because they copied... er... the "close button" icon of the windows..." You're doing things wrong, whether you wanna accept it or not. Y se te está acabando el chollo. 

By the way, I'm watching MS's home page with Mozilla, will they tell me to build my own server if I don't wanna see their page with IE ? Oh, that happened years ago, was the famous "MicroSoft Network vs Internet"

Everything that has a beginning, has an end... and one way or another, this world is going to end.