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|    Jas Hud to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic    |
|    09 May 22 12:27:57    |
      MSGID: 1:129/305 6f9c3e10       TID: GE 1.2       NA> Help or feedback about how my software runs is one thing and in neverendin       NA> supply. Help with porting an obscure database library into something a       NA> modern compiler can digest is something else. I have no help with that. Bu       NA> I did get some nice feedback... "uhh yeah Nick good luck with that".       NA>        NA> You keeping using that word community but I do not think it means what you       NA> think it means. There is no community of BBS/Fido developers. They are few       NA> and far between nowadays and they are often busy with their own stuff.              it's all about how you participate and who you participate with.              you stay away from the communities i am talking about.       that's why you and g00r00 are ignorant about them. I'm not using the word       ignorant as an insult. every man is ignorant.              NA> Seems to me G00R00 and Mystic are doing just fine for a closed-source prog       NA> that even the militant Linux keyboard warrior fanatics preaching about       NA> open-source-everything just seem eager to have it installed and running li       NA> kids opening Christmas presents. Hence my remark about moving goalposts.       NA>                      so why do you always keep bringing up linux? it seems like you have some huge        hate for linux. i'm not even talking about linux.              NA> My understanding is that you can do "everything" with the Mystic script        NA> language or whatever it has. So how exactly will Mystic be improved by mak       NA> it open source? You mention collaboration. On what part exactly? How will        NA> likely incompetent people messing with its code benefit the average Sysop?       NA>               you and g00r00 will never know, because it will never happen.              but you can SEE how it has happened with synchronet and other bbs softwares.              ... Every morning is the dawn of a new error...              --- Renegade v1.30/DOS        * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (1:129/305)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 129/330 331 153/7715 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112       SEEN-BY: 229/206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 129/305 229/426           |
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