On 09 Oct 11  13:22:20, Benny Pedersen said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
   BP> i was ironical here   
      
   It was Lost In Translation.   
      
   BP>  NA> Nope. He lost the source code or something. That has been discussed    
   BP>  NA> to death in the IREX echo...   
   BP>    
   BP> yep, if it was opensource it have backups, its like Linus Thorwalds fameous   
   BP> write code and let the world make backups   
      
   Software doesn't need to be open-source to have backups, obi-wan.   
      
   BP> i am happy to know you got inspirated from irex, irex is cool imho, but wit   
   BP> lost source there is no future of it anymore, only can hope the money   
   BP> collection will make author begin code irex ng or simply pay back in other   
   BP> ways, on the other hands if he give them to grandchilds that runs fidonet   
   BP> nodes its still cool :)   
      
   That will never happen. IREX is abandonware for good. There is simply no    
   incentive anymore to rewrite it from scratch. As far as I know there is not    
   even an API or published database-record format, so writing a "clone" that    
   will work with everyone's existing configuration files is almost impossible.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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