Now I've seen everything (OT-humor)...

[Chris Brenton]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 17:45 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Chris Brenton <cbrenton at chrisbrenton.org> wrote:
>         This is just too funny for words. I had to do some digging
>         into it
>         before I would actually believe it:
>         http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,124047,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp
>         In short, Microsoft is actioning off invitations to beta test
>         "MSN
>         Messenger Live" which, when released, will be _free software_.
> 
>   Doesn't look to me like it's Microsoft who's doing the auctioning,
> but users who are able to send invites.

>From the link above:
"Microsoft is auctioning off invitations to the private beta release of
the forthcoming client on eBay's auction site..."

C