Enough now. I know Khaled personally. I consider him one of my best friends, I know him for being kind, caring and sincere. He'll never ever come up with such a stupid plot. I've been around when we discussed making mIRC shareware or not - with the risk of quitting mIRC development for a 'real job'. I've seen him fighting with that decision. I've seen the struggle with the about dialog - how to urge but not force pple to pay... Have you read his homepage? his 'speech' in the help file? the fund-raisers?
Mamamia, he's a great guy and doing his very very best for mIRC and its users. He really doesn't deserve another crap discussion like this. Shame on you!