01 Jan 70 00:00, Nick Andre wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    NA> On 01 Oct 12  17:45:28, Roy Witt said the following to Nicholas Boel:   
      
    RW>> I agree with that, but I'm in no position to 'talk' him into   
    RW>> releasing the source. I'd discourage anyone from registering irex   
    RW>> and just persue using the unregistered version or looking into   
    RW>> offering to buy someone else's key. This isn't anything new, as I   
    RW>> was given a key generator for FastEcho 1.46 which can open that   
    RW>> program for max use...   
      
    NA> I was a fan of Irex for a long time in the late 90's I think it was,   
    NA> and bought a 50 or 100-node license for it, I forget which. Pretty   
    NA> sure it was the 100 node one. Money wasn't so much the issue as it   
    NA> was "unlocking" its limitation.   
      
   I was an early user as well, paying $25 for a 50-node license. Prior to   
   that, I hated the limitations so much that I was glad to fork over that   
   $25.   
      
    NA> Sure I could hex-edit the thing, but went with the honourable   
    NA> approach. And I bought my key I think two years after Charles went   
    NA> AWOL.   
      
   He was still active in this echo when I began using Rex...he answered a   
   lot of questions I had, some I voiced, some curious about, right here in   
   the echo. Those that I was curious about were answered when others asked   
   the questions I was going to ask.   
      
    NA> When I did the work that I did to DB, I transferred my license to a   
    NA> fellow Sysop who makes good use of it to this day. I got the   
    NA> momentary warm-and-fuzzy-feeling of doing a good deed for someone "in   
    NA> need".   
      
   You're probably aware that I'm running both Irex and DB at the same time,   
   each on a different port.   
      
    NA> If Charles would at least program a key-generator, it would at least   
    NA> put the whole continuing-to-charge-$ discussion/arguments to rest. Or   
    NA> at least some sort of disclaimer indicating that the product is sold   
    NA> as-is with no more official support from the author.   
      
   That would help those who're looking at it to make a decision on whether   
   or not they're interested in using it. If they can get some help from   
   others who're using it, that would help them out too.   
      
    NA> I think there were rumors here that he "lost" the source code, which   
    NA> I find a bit hard to believe as that was a very large project to   
    NA> -not- have backups of the source code for, and a project that brought   
    NA> in a nice amount of $$$.   
      
   I don't know his situation, but I recall that discussion. Which is   
   probably why the activity has dwindled to almost nothing here. In fact   
   this is the most activity I've seen in a long time.   
      
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