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Skriven 2006-04-10 20:02:00 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till text 25 av Robert Couture (1:229/2000)
Ärende: FD & -Unpublished-
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Hello Robert.

10 Apr 06 10:38, you wrote to me:


 RC>>> What hearsay?

 MV|>> Going on what others say is hearsay....

 RC> Not if it can be backed by facts.

He never used Irex himself. All he has is what *others* told him. For him it is
hearsay.

 RC>>> Irex is *broken*  It has been broken for years with no sight of a
 RC>>> fix.

 MV|>> It is not broken. It may have some quirks that need patching up
 MV|>> but IMHO it is not broken.

 RC> No, sorry ... it is very *broken*  If it does not run at *all* it is
 RC> broken.

But it *does* run. It has been running here for three years.

 RC>   That I cannot run it under Linux without jumping through
 RC> stupid hoops means it is broken.

Perhaps you are doing something wrong.....

 MV|>> Odd. I have been using the win32 version for over three years now
 MV|>> and I never had it crash on me. I have over two dozen nodes
 MV|>> configured in the node manager.

 RC> It got more unstable as I added more nodes than that.

I have 34 nodes in the node manager. It is not unstable.

 RC> Mind you I was using BinkP, TransX, FTP and other features at the
 RC> time. Perhaps that lead to some instability that you have not
 RC> witnessed?

Perhaps.

 RC>>> I have watched the complete lack of development since I purchased
 RC>>> my 1000 node server license shortly after 2.29 came out.

 MV|>> That, I can not deny. There has not been an update in years.... :-(

 RC> Yes.  it saddens me that it has reached this point.

Same here, but that is the reality. I have seen lots of good software go that
way. InterMail, Frontdoor, O-T/Track, Gecho, Fmail....

 RC> Hopefully Charles can be convinced to open source it should he decide
 RC> to stop working on it himself.  That would be best.

Then it still would take someone willing and competent to pick it up.

 RC> If not that, at least pass it / sell it to someone who wants to
 RC> develop it more.

After what happened to InterMail, I am not looking forward tp have the same
happen to Irex. Peter Stewart sold it to Dale Barnes, who promised all sort of
things, but eventually t he too left FidoNet taking the source with him.

 RC> If it comes down to sell, maybe the Fido community could pony up a
 RC> donation for a fund to purchase it for everyone :)  Or *something*

Hmmm... I already paid once for Irex. why should I pay again when there are
freeware alternatives?

 RC> I just want to use it again :)

I am not married to Irex. So far it suits me. If the day comes that it does not
suit me any more, I will change to something else. Something free....

Michiel

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