One might well consider enabling people from all over the world to have a cheap and good quality client for irc chatting, has enabled more people to experences other people (if only in text talk) from other countries, and with luck produced a world where people might be just that little more hesitent to start yelling that its some other countries/peoples fault, when they happen to know a few of those people online.
Mybe Khaled has done something saintly?
(then again the operating platform it runs on was created by the devil himself!)
