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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