I don't care that there's a fee. I have mine set to 0.01 for all transactions, anyway. just STOP SAYING there is no minimum fee when clearly there is. It's confusing.
Right. This is my point. There is no minimum fee: I, and a great many other people using unmodified .24, send zero fee transactions all the time. Thus: The minimum fee is zero.
If you went to a car lot shopping for used cars, would you say that there is a minimum fee of $90,000 because thats the price on some of the cars? No.
It doesn't help that we've used some fairly confusing terminology in the software, we should be more careful about that in the future. But it still doesn't excuse people claiming that there is a minimum fee. :-/
If you don't want technical details thats fine. "There is a particular fee required for transactions that look too much like a DOS attack to the system" is an accurate statement. "There is a minimum fee" is misleading and contributing to poor health of the bitcoin network by causing people to stay on older versions.