ac> Part of the problem with the Maximus/Squish code when 
 ac> it was released was that it no longer built properly on 
 ac> the operating systems it already ran on 
 ac> (DOS/OS2/Win32).  I don't know if the situation has 
 ac> changed since then, but certainly the main driving 

I successfully built Squish & Maximus for DOS & NT. Dropped the
ball with OS/2.

 ac> factor behind Maximus development was to get it running 
 ac> on Linux, not add new features.

 ML> Hypothetically if I contracted dozens of dedicated
 ML> Chinese/Indian/Russian students AUD$5k pa to develop Maximus it
 ML> would easily be better than Synchronet. Money is a powerful 
 ML> catalyst. 

 ac> That sounds like a good advertisement for Synchronet.

Great. So I can be the only SysOp on earth (alive) that has Maximus.
MuahahAHA (evil laugh) and everybody will have to log on to MY bbs if they
want to see it and get support. Artificially induced scarcity hikes up
value baby. 

Come see Maximus before it goes extinct (!). I can charge a logon fee.

--- Maximus 3.01