Hello james,

On Sunday March 11 2012 04:08, you wrote to me:

 jc> However, on another message network someone recently claimed that they
 jc> had just paid (within a month or so) for IREX and received a response
 jc> and a key.

 jc> *If* that is true, to me its fraud and it needs to be stopped.

I have no reason tp doubt that is indeed what happened. But I would not
call it fraud. That's to big a word. I'd call it indecent salesmanship.

 jc> He needs to release it, or work on it (if he really is still taking
 jc> peoples money).  Or we need to start a project to replace it (open
 jc> sourced).

I can understand the concept of limited commercial lifetime of products. I
can understand and accept that support for a product is not forever. At
some point in time it stops. But... that should work both ways. When the
support stops, the revenue should stop as well. Support is INCLUDED in the
deal when buying a product. So stopping the support but continuing to
accept money for it, is unethical. Just my EUR 0.02

 jc> I have an open sourced framework that when combined with Argus or
 jc> something could recreate IREX and then some with only a little group
 jc> effort from programmers.

Will all due respect, I think that is too ambitious. Recreating Irex from
scratch is a major project, I do not think with the few programmers left in
FidoNet we can raise the manpower to do that.


Cheers, Michiel

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