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   Message 560 of 565   
   Dan Cross to xbit   
   Re: Spitfire's Y2k25 bug   
   04 Jan 25 07:38:26   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48   
   MSGID: 3:770/100 bc562c94   
   REPLY: 200.fidonet_spitfire@1:105/44 2bdc3109   
   TZUTC: 1300   
   On 02 Jan 2025 at 12:42p, xbit pondered and said...   
       
    xb> Sadly, looks like Spitfire is RIP forever. On the morning of 1-1-2025 I   
    xb> noticed that all SF nodes would no longer boot as it requests to set the   
    xb> system date and time.    
    xb>    
    xb> Looking into putting it on a VM w/ the date set to 2014 but perhaps its   
    xb> just time to say goodbye.   
    xb>    
    xb> Take care all and Happy New Year.   
      
   That's really sad.  I know that Mike Woltz passed away in 2022; it's   
   a shame that the source code to Spitfire wasn't released as open source   
   before that.  Does anyone know how to get in touch with his estate?   
   Perhaps they'd be willing to transfer the code somewhere and someone   
   could patch it.  For that matter, maybe the binary could be patched.   
      
   I ran Spitfire back in the early 90's.  I've always had a soft spot   
   for it in my heart.   
      
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