Shoutbox

jpg050: even if it's true that I was quite unhappy with Messenger 6, I never said anything about Microsoft doing things they don't have the right to do etc... if they wanted to shut down Messenger Plus!, I would be sad but that would be their entire right. And you seem to forget something important, you and the others with the same arguments.... it's very different if you're not using MSN Messenger to connect to the service. Yes it generates the same traffic but there's no benefit for them. That's what I wrote in my article. If you connect in linux with a third party client, you're just wasting their bandwidth. They want you to use Messenger at least so that you are using their OS: Windows. The problem is not the bandwidth used, it's the benefit from it.... I hope you'll think about that because that's fundamental to the problem. If they don't want to make a client for Linux, too bad for Linux. Buy yourself a server, create your client and distribute it for free in linux if you're not happy with what Microsoft is doing. Instead of bashing Microsoft once again, I'd really appreciate if you could think about it before you reply to this post, if you do, you'll understand quickly why Microsoft is doing what is right to do.