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   Message 4,434 of 5,461   
   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   
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