-=> Quoting Mark Hoover to Scott Adams <=-

 SA>    And hope he doesn't...once he would the software would become
 SA>    like white trash just the bottom level of bbs software.  It
 SA>    would be hacked and rehacked and changed into all new versions
 SA>    and the professional style it has been since 2.5 would be
 SA>    ruined and all those years of hard work.  IMHO.

 MH> And eventually a fatal bug will come up due to the constantly changing
 MH> operating systems and hardware.  At that point sysops if they're still
 MH> around will be forced to either attempt to keep ancient hardware
 MH> around  to support the systems or abandon it as a useless piece of
 MH> trash.

     well theres many like myself who still like ancient dos and
     hardware :)  It it works why beat it.

 MH> This is exactly what drove me off Irex.  I got tired of the config 
 MH> program wiping out the config all the time.  The Linux version not 
 MH> working on anything newer than RedHat 7.3.

     Yeah.  Linux has issues.  I wish I wasn't so tied to it but
     oh well.  Hooked now and no alternatives. 

 MH> While I respect Tim's decision.  The current state of development
 MH> along  with him being the only one who has the full source means that 
 MH> eventually TG will die.  Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but 
 MH> eventually, someday....

     I heard that same line when 2.5 came out over a decade though
     when WWIV was competing with it.  So I don't think it'll die
     in terms of its use.



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