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TM>MJ> I know he charged an arm and a leg:
 
TM> WHERE are you getting all this OLD $H!T NEWS?!?!?!
 
Chris Irwin is the originator of the product, he did charge for user-keys and
had a complete network with commercial representation. Several authors tried to
make a buck out of Fido but I think there were no major commercial successes.
 
So eventually in the 2nd part of the 90-ies Chris Irwin effectively abandoned
it. He briefly showed-up at the end of 1999 to deal with some Y2K-issues but
lived-up to the common perception that whenever he solved a bug in D'Bridge, he
created 2 others. His Y2K-version was crap and removed here the day it was
installed, went back to 1.85 and the by then known bugs with their
work-arounds. I think around that time I was the only user remaining and that
did't change for some years.
 
The work-arounds were lovely, I even managed to get 1.85 to function in an
IP-environment.
 
Then came this spoiled bratt from somewhere Toronto who convinced Chris Irwin
to release the code, which Chris eventually reluctantly did as if he was giving
away the PIN-code of Fort Knox.
 
I think one of the first things Nick did was to kick-out the key-code ... and
then the picture changed. New stuff happened ...
 
 \%/@rd 

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