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

 
 MH> It's sad.  I always said the BBS hobby wasn't going to die due to lack
 MH>  of users or sysops, but due to the lack of people who write the
 MH> critical pieces of software needed to support the hobby.

 SD> I don't see why Tim just won't GPL it.  I'd love to hack out my own
 SD> custom version of TG/2... 

    Well most programmers (the professional ones mainly) prefer their
    baby products to be secretive and hidden.  Thus they don't
    want code their hardwork just gone out to the public.  I
    would never release some of my major works but have done a few
    things like a TG util here and there that was only maybe
    a few hundred lines.  I can understand why he wouldn't want
    to release it.

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

... Babylon 5 is the last of the Babylon stations.  
--- Fringe BBS