The main reason to pay for mIRC is to allow Khaled to improve it without distraction. If Khaled wasn't paid for it, he'd likely spend less (or no) time on it.
Small rambling: I like mIRC's features and programming language. Much less hassle to get results with than C or other compiled languages. Much easier to install and get working than other scripting languages for Windows, except for Python, which is just as easy to install. Then again, Python doesn't have IRC chatting built in.
