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to: Mark Hofmann
from: Gene Buckle
date: 2014-01-13 09:59:40
subject: Re: IBM

Re: Re: IBM
  By: Mark Hofmann to Gene Buckle on Thu Jan 09 2014 11:42 am

 > GB> Why not contact Wayne and get permission for those to be released?
 > 
 > I'm not sure that Dean has any contact with Wayne at this point in time.  Al
 > know concerning the situation was the network software was not to be release
 > as open source on the original agreement.
 > 
 > One thing I didn't know is that development has been made on replacement WWI
 > network software by using reverse engineering.  :)
 > 
 > The product is called NetX and is being actively worked on again today.
 > 
 > - Mark
 > 

If Dean has the source code, I'd be happy to reach out to Wayne and find out if
he'd be willing to allow that code to be released.  I suspect he can be reached
through a friend of mine.

Barring that, it's nice to see that the network stack is being reverse
engineered.

tnx.

g.
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