-=> Quoting Mark Hoover to Sean Dennis <=-

 MH> {at}MSGID: 649.tgsuppor{at}1:275/103 06853f9c
 SD>Hello, Mark.
 
 SD> MH> Sean.  I'm not saying it's a problem now.  But who knows what
 SD> MH> lies within the source code.  Maybe theres some variable counter
 SD> MH> that overflows in the year 2008.  Sure your software works great
 SD> MH> and that's  good, but what about next year?
 
 SD>Thankfully, there's tons of BBS source code out there that you can
 SD>work on and  use to your heart's content. ;)  LoraBBS is a great
 SD>example.  Unfortunately, I  don't know C++, otherwise I could use it.

 MH> I'm not sure about the non-C/C++ or non-BASIC code, but the source
 MH> code  I've looked at from time to time didn't even compile properly.  I
 MH> did  have luck once upon a time getting an old version of WWIV to
 MH> compile.   Even got the something of it to execute.  The configuration
 MH> program I  think.

 MH> Fortunately, it's somewhat of a better situation these days. 
 MH> Synchronet  is effectively open source and last I heard a guy was
 MH> re-writing  Renegade.  Beyond that, I'm not really sure as I'm really
 MH> out of the  loop these days....

        Yeah the guy on RA I've not seen in fido in months so not
        sure if he quit or not.



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