Hello james,   
      
   On Sunday March 11 2012 04:08, you wrote to me:   
      
    jc> However, on another message network someone recently claimed that they   
    jc> had just paid (within a month or so) for IREX and received a response   
    jc> and a key.   
      
    jc> *If* that is true, to me its fraud and it needs to be stopped.   
      
   I have no reason tp doubt that is indeed what happened. But I would not call   
   it fraud. That's to big a word. I'd call it indecent salesmanship.   
      
    jc> He needs to release it, or work on it (if he really is still taking   
    jc> peoples money).  Or we need to start a project to replace it (open   
    jc> sourced).   
      
   I can understand the concept of limited commercial lifetime of products. I can   
   understand and accept that support for a product is not forever. At some point   
   in time it stops. But... that should work both ways. When the support stops,   
   the revenue should stop as well. Support is INCLUDED in the deal when buying a   
   product. So stopping the support but continuing to accept money for it, is   
   unethical. Just my EUR 0.02   
      
    jc> I have an open sourced framework that when combined with Argus or   
    jc> something could recreate IREX and then some with only a little group   
    jc> effort from programmers.   
      
   Will all due respect, I think that is too ambitious. Recreating Irex from   
   scratch is a major project, I do not think with the few programmers left in   
   FidoNet we can raise the manpower to do that.   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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