You haven't read the whole thread either. If you did you'd see that there is more than one IRCd involved, more than one mode type involved and more than one user reporting issues where only ONE SINGLE chat programme (mIRC) is affected. I hardly think CR costs much anyway, I helped build two rack servers about 6 weeks ago and each one has about $50,000 worth of software on board with on-going licence fees approaching the million mark over the life of the software (including upgrades).
At anyrate this discussion isn't freeware v's commercial software. Both CR and mIRC have to be paid for as far as I remember. I don't know about Global IRCd though.
