Mon 2007-04-30 08:53, Ryan de Laplante (1:229/1394) wrote to Mvan Le:

 RdL> In 2003 when I broguht my bbs back to life I insisted on keeping 
 RdL> it Maximus, or not opening it again.  I gave the new Linux 
 RdL> maximus a try but it wasn't usable so I waited it out.... for 4 
 RdL> YEARS.  Read the MUFFIN archives, you'll see my posts have always 
 RdL> asked about supporting DOS doors.  How much longer am I supposed 
 RdL> to wait to get Maximus running in Linux with DOS doors?

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but this is a poor attitude to take towards
free software, especially open source stuff.  We are all volunteers, so you
can't just go around expecting people to make things work for you.  If
you're unable to pay someone to get something working, then you're pretty
much stuck with trying to do it yourself, or not doing it, because there
are very few (near zero) people left in FidoNet who have the time or
inclination to write code for BBS software - especially code that they will
probably never use themselves.

I still think it's remarkable that the source code to Maximus and Squish
was released at all, given the amount of work that went into it, to make it
even possible for it to be ported to Linux.

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