Hello Michiel!

Friday November 23 2007 21:16, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Gord Hannah:

 MvdV> Be that as it may be, the author still has ownership of whatever is
 MvdV> left.

Exactly.  AAMOF, it is still possible to register the software at BMT
Micro. Those registration payments must be going somewhere, and my money
says that they go to Charles (eventually.)

 GH>> We have not heard a word from Charles on this matter, so silence
 GH>> must mean carry on and do what one will.

 MvdV> I am not sure if that reasoning is correct.

 MvdV> Other than that: so far it is just rumour that the source is lost. I
 MvdV> have a bit of difficulty accepting Charles did not make any backups.

If the rumor is correct, it's most likely that backups were made, but for
whatever reason could not be restored.  Media failures are fairly common
among tape backups, for example.  I know that if I had a project the size
of IRex, I would have multiple backups on different media, and stored
offsite as well.

 GH>> This is not the first real good program that has been abandoned,
 GH>> or source lost, or probably the last.

 MvdV> Unfortunately that is true... :-(

Ray Gwinn's SIO comm. drivers for OS/2 are another example.

Andrew

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