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     Re: Re: Spitfire's Y2k25 bug   
     By: Dan Cross to xbit on Sat Jan 04 2025 07:38 am   
      
    xb>> Sadly, looks like Spitfire is RIP forever. On the morning of   
    xb>> 1-1-2025 I noticed that all SF nodes would no longer boot as it   
    xb>> requests to set the system date and time.    
    xb>> Looking into putting it on a VM w/ the date set to 2014 but perhaps   
    xb>> its just time to say goodbye.   
      
    DC> That's really sad. I know that Mike Woltz passed away in 2022; it's   
    DC> a shame that the source code to Spitfire wasn't released as open source   
    DC> before that. Does anyone know how to get in touch with his estate?   
    DC> Perhaps they'd be willing to transfer the code somewhere and someone   
    DC> could patch it. For that matter, maybe the binary could be patched.   
      
   Last year I put a few days into trying to find a family contact w/ out much   
   luck. But, I'm not a person finding expert so I'm sure it can be done by   
   someone with the correct tools.    
      
   I'm upset w/ myself as I had an ongoing thread with Mike before he passed. We   
   worked on a few bugs i found and he even updated my spitfire.exe not long ago.   
   I was going to ask him if he had plans on making SF freeware and/or opensource   
   but i knew he got a little put off with this line of question.    
      
    DC> I ran Spitfire back in the early 90's. I've always had a soft spot   
    DC> for it in my heart.   
      
   Same.. I remember how excited i was when i got the init strings to pick up a   
   call and about fell of my chair when my first call came in :)   
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