They still encourage clients to connect to their network, so with any luck, we can work something out. If not, people may find a way to connect anyway...
I think that's pretty clear that gaim will try both options.
If MSN is requiring third party clients to get a license, and the license agreement is reasonable, then gaim will have support for MSN. If there is a way to bypass any license requirement LEGALLY, then gaim will likely have support for MSN too.
If other third party clients are willing to reach agreement with MSN that the gaim team aren't, then ya, feel free to switch.
Load trillian with a nice minimalistic skin and you have something that takes up much less real estate, minus the ads, and...oh yeah...it uses less system resources than any of the others.
Unfortunately the default skin is nothing close to minimalistic. And Gaim only using 7.7mb and 10.2mb with a spellchecker.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/19/HNmsnloc kdown_1.html
It affects all third party clients.
If MSN is requiring third party clients to get a license, and the license agreement is reasonable, then gaim will have support for MSN. If there is a way to bypass any license requirement LEGALLY, then gaim will likely have support for MSN too. If other third party clients are willing to reach agreement with MSN that the gaim team aren't, then ya, feel free to switch.
tar zxf file.tar.gz or tar jxf file.tar.bz
not anytime soon
Load trillian with a nice minimalistic skin and you have something that takes up much less real estate, minus the ads, and...oh yeah...it uses less system resources than any of the others.
Unfortunately the default skin is nothing close to minimalistic. And Gaim only using 7.7mb and 10.2mb with a spellchecker.