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RE: Uniting Skype and Windows Live Messenger: Implications on Messenger Plus!
Skype has a track record of being very closed-minded about 3rd party developers using their software or even their protocol. I do not foresee this ever changing. I am sorry to see the Messenger protocol going away, and with it MsgPlus!. For now, I'll stick with Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk, both of which have a somewhat more friendly relation with developers and especially open source developers. This has led to a very rich and diverse client and user base, and software with no idiotic advertisements in them. In the past, A-Patch and MsgPlus! were a nice enough solution among closed-source options. The past is gone, Messenger is dead, there's nothing I can do about it but move on. Any other opinion about Skype and MsgPlus! being a replacement is a delusion. Sorry, and with all due respect to the developers, but that is the honest truth.
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