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echo: dbridge
to: Nick Andre
from: Alan Ianson
date: 2018-06-10 20:26:40
subject: Re: D`Bridge 3.99/SR32 released and avai

Re: Re: D'Bridge 3.99/SR32 released and avai
  By: Nick Andre to Benny Pedersen on Sun Jun 10 2018 10:26 pm

 NA> And when I state my logical reasons why, most of the time I am looked upon
 NA> as an idiot because I don't publish source code like Mystic, HPT and
 NA> Synchronet. 

Mystic is not open source. I think it was for a short time but not now. It is
very much g00r00's software and I think he and the users of the software like
it that way, and that approach works well for Mystic and lots of software,
D'Bridge included.

I am a linux guy myself though not very techie. I don't dislike windows I just
prefer linux. After OS/2 went bye bye I made the switch to linux.

 NA> All three of those programs are very nice, but have had the exact same 
 NA> problems as closed-source mailers, tossers, BBS software etc. If the code
 NA> is open source, shouldn't there be such a huge crowd of people working to
 NA> fix it? 

If they care to, yes. Having those people on board is key to open source. Even
without maintenance software can find itself in an unusable state.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al


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