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Originally posted by arnoud
Remove the adware from Messenger Plus and quit whining.
As I said somewhere before*, that wouldn't solve a thing in this case. The fact is that MSAS has bugs in it. And the purpose of the petition is to fix those bugs.
Even if Plus! didn't had a sponsor, MSAS will still be the same with all its bugs and false alerts. It wouldn't be the first time that a company sues MSAS for not willing to fix wrong detections, it happened before and it is happening all over again, with a Plus! sponsor or not...
EDIT: * it was here
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Originally posted by arnoud
There are tons of possibilities to make some money without bothering computer illiterates with a popup and banner fest.
This comment pops up from time to time, rightfully and understandable... But the truth is, in all those years, nobody has come up with anything which could replace the sponsor. The sponsor can't be compared to some random google ad you might wanna put on a website and as you often see on smaller sites. The costs involving Plus! (the high-volume servers, forums, support, 24/7 full time programming job, etc...) aren't to be underestimated and can't be covered by some google ads. It wasn't a light decision which was taken, just like that...
EDIT: As Guido has posted:quote:
(Thanks for knowing how to mantain a civilized conversation and discuss your points kindly; you are in the minority)
arnoud, indeed, it has been a while since we had somebody with a different point of view who also could maintain a civilized convo without bursting into flaming and name calling 
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