Stop Microsoft

Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: restin256 on 26 January 2004, 17:40

Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: restin256 on 26 January 2004, 17:40: Why do a lot of people here who hate Microsuck use MSN Messenger? I only do because my friends do, but I'm in the process of converting as many as I can to ICQ or Yahoo.

[ January 26, 2004: Message edited by: restin256 ]
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: Kintaro on 26 January 2004, 18:41: because MSN is 1337.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: restin256 on 26 January 2004, 21:55: It is a good IM thing but they constantly upgrade it so that GAIM users have to fix it and then upgrade. It's like MS Word and OpenOffice.org.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: Refalm on 26 January 2004, 23:01: Because dMSN Messenger (http://www.dmsn.nl/) (for Linux, Mac OS X and OS/2) is so damn kewl!
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 26 January 2004, 23:22: Never used it.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: restin256 on 26 January 2004, 23:31: Anything but aMSN. I just hope that one day GAIM will be to trillian as XMMS is to winamp.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: TheQuirk on 27 January 2004, 05:03: It already is. It supports almost all the features Trillian does...

P.S
Trillian used to be based off of Gaim.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: M51DPS on 27 January 2004, 05:10: I technically could be on MSN because Fire (http://fire.sourceforge.net/) supports it, but the best way to destroy a company's market share is not to be a part of it.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: hm_murdock on 27 January 2004, 05:31: and the best way to lead a horse to Lt. Tully is with a TV and an episode of MOUNT BOREDMORE
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: restin256 on 28 January 2004, 03:10: What I meant was with skins. They don't support Trillian skins and a lot of features (voice chat, webcams, etc) that Trillian does.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: msdos464 on 29 January 2004, 23:29: Hmm... I use MSN Messenger because I don't know anything
else program that would do the same. Why should I
move to some other program? I think that messenger
is enough to me, or do you have any real reason to
use some other program(s)?

[ January 29, 2004: Message edited by: msdos464 ]
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: Heywood on 29 January 2004, 23:58: I use everything BUT Msn, yahoo, ICQ, aim, etc. Not that I have anything against MSN messenger, I've just been too lazy to set up an account.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: Commander on 30 January 2004, 05:49: what's wrong with amsn? i use it both on windows and linux. it works for me. plus, dmsn takes up too much memory.
Title: I have a stupid question..
Post by: restin256 on 30 January 2004, 23:33: quote:
Originally posted by msdos464:
Hmm... I use MSN Messenger because I don't know anything
else program that would do the same. Why should I
move to some other program? I think that messenger
is enough to me, or do you have any real reason to
use some other program(s)?

[ January 29, 2004: Message edited by: msdos464 ]

MSN is short for MicroSoft Network. And if you haven't noticed you're on an anti-microsoft forum. Use GAIM, or pirate Trillian if you aren't anti-closed source.