Haha. My bad. I actually created the account just to comment on this. I have been around slashdot for a long time, just never felt the need to sign up.
... You are not "Insightful" at all. Plus users are most likely the most informed out of the Messenger customers (probably the 10% that are blissfully AWARE). Also, calling a programmer who does alot of good to the messenger community a dork with no founding is little more then flaming. Also, it IS a "sponser program" as it is the OPTIONAL program that gives Patchou his income for his free program. Sounds like the definition of a sponser to me. Thanks for playing.
The program is NOT useless. It has now acts as a platform for extra plugins to MSN Messenger also. It also provides better logs then microsoft does... Actually here:
http://www.msgpluslive.net/features/
Have a look at that, it's not simply a adware program.
Patchou has done a lot of good for MSN messenger. I am guessing because most people in the US use AIM they would not really know about Plus. The adware is an OPTIONAL INSTALL and it very clearly shown as that on installation (the installer even defaults to not install it, so the user must choose to) and gives the option to uninstall it once installed. You do not need to install the "Sponser Program" to use Plus. Patchou's only means of income is the sponser program, and he spends a lot of time making plus a great program. I would recommend it to anyone using MSN Messenger or Messenger Live. My friend, Chestah, who is one of the few beta testers for Patchou thinks of him in a high light. He is not a scum bag looking to make large profits, mearly support the large amount of time he spends to create a FREE program for the public to benefit from. He has even had competitions to give away free prizes to his Beta testers and the general public (Chestah won 200 dollars for a google plugin). I am very glad that he has won this prize as he deserves it. It is great to see him get the recognition he deserves.
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Haha. My bad. I actually created the account just to comment on this. I have been around slashdot for a long time, just never felt the need to sign up.
... You are not "Insightful" at all. Plus users are most likely the most informed out of the Messenger customers (probably the 10% that are blissfully AWARE). Also, calling a programmer who does alot of good to the messenger community a dork with no founding is little more then flaming. Also, it IS a "sponser program" as it is the OPTIONAL program that gives Patchou his income for his free program. Sounds like the definition of a sponser to me. Thanks for playing.
This is the tpye of level headedness we need. People are blindly reading the article which is clearly slanderous and believing every word said.
No, it is. I have been using Plus for at least 3 years. It is good.
The program is NOT useless. It has now acts as a platform for extra plugins to MSN Messenger also. It also provides better logs then microsoft does... Actually here: http://www.msgpluslive.net/features/ Have a look at that, it's not simply a adware program.
Patchou has done a lot of good for MSN messenger. I am guessing because most people in the US use AIM they would not really know about Plus. The adware is an OPTIONAL INSTALL and it very clearly shown as that on installation (the installer even defaults to not install it, so the user must choose to) and gives the option to uninstall it once installed. You do not need to install the "Sponser Program" to use Plus. Patchou's only means of income is the sponser program, and he spends a lot of time making plus a great program. I would recommend it to anyone using MSN Messenger or Messenger Live. My friend, Chestah, who is one of the few beta testers for Patchou thinks of him in a high light. He is not a scum bag looking to make large profits, mearly support the large amount of time he spends to create a FREE program for the public to benefit from. He has even had competitions to give away free prizes to his Beta testers and the general public (Chestah won 200 dollars for a google plugin). I am very glad that he has won this prize as he deserves it. It is great to see him get the recognition he deserves.