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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
what if it was patchou who submitted the idea?
He has ripped it off too, from Khaled Mardam-Bey (mIRC), who has ripped it of... , who has ripped it of... , who has ripped it of... blah (whoever came first with the 'away message' concept; which probably even didn't had anything todo with computers)...
Point is, such ideas are not unique, never were, never will. It is only the thing to be bothered to implement them. If that guy in MS was the first to be bothered with it, congratulations to him and he deserves a price (or rather the others deserve a kick on the but
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