Now correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't the mIRC homepage have a fund raiser for the American Red Cross?
Raising money by donating registration of mIRC is one thing... a purely political message is another...
If khaled wants to donate all proceeds from feburary's mIRC registering to MUAWI (made up anti war international) - fine, put that on the front page - but having a purely political message is just an abuse of the popularity of the irc client and those who want to find out about mirc!
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Besides - the fund raising efforts were directly linked to mIRC, so it was entirely appropriate to display information regarding them
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People do protest the war within the chatroom...
The mIRC website is not a chatroom - it is much closer to compare it to the mirc-announce mailing list. One (or two) people control the content on it for thousands (millions) of others to see.
If khaled/tjerk wanna protest about the war, I completely support them in their views - but the mIRC website is not the place for it