Oh, and to clarify from some of the previous points I had somehow missed last night... Bench and I are friends outside of 'chat'. I wouldn't have chosen this course of action without at least consulting him on it, given the amount of time he had committed to ChatCore over the years - that being said, he resigned from ChatCore and transferred ownership of the company and the source code entirely to me... so really, the whole debate on whether or not it was my call to make is utterly pointless.
However, for Johnson & co, I think I have the source code to one of our first edition web chats somewhere on a hard disk... it won't work in anything aside from IE6 and earlier editions of the Firefox family of browsers, but since you're all such fans of the MSN OCX I can't imagine that'll be a significant problem.
[/rant] I think this topic can be closed, I can't see how anything productive can materialise here.