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   On 04 Jan 2025 at 05:40a, xbit pondered and said...   
       
    xb>   Re: Re: Spitfire's Y2k25 bug   
    xb>   By: Dan Cross to xbit on Sat Jan 04 2025 07:38 am   
    xb>    
    xb>  xb>> Sadly, looks like Spitfire is RIP forever. On the morning of   
    xb>  xb>> 1-1-2025 I noticed that all SF nodes would no longer boot as it   
    xb>  xb>> requests to set the system date and time.    
    xb>  xb>> Looking into putting it on a VM w/ the date set to 2014 but perhaps   
    xb>  xb>> its just time to say goodbye.   
    xb>    
    xb>  DC> That's really sad. I know that Mike Woltz passed away in 2022; it's   
    xb>  DC> a shame that the source code to Spitfire wasn't released as open sour   
    xb>  DC> before that. Does anyone know how to get in touch with his estate?   
    xb>  DC> Perhaps they'd be willing to transfer the code somewhere and someone   
    xb>  DC> could patch it. For that matter, maybe the binary could be patched.   
    xb>    
    xb> Last year I put a few days into trying to find a family contact w/ out   
    xb> much luck. But, I'm not a person finding expert so I'm sure it can be   
    xb> done by someone with the correct tools.    
    xb>    
    xb> I'm upset w/ myself as I had an ongoing thread with Mike before he   
    xb> passed. We worked on a few bugs i found and he even updated my   
    xb> spitfire.exe not long ago. I was going to ask him if he had plans on   
    xb> making SF freeware and/or opensource but i knew he got a little put off   
    xb> with this line of question.   
      
   Hmm, that's too bad.  As some of these folks age, the best   
   way to preserve their legacy in this context is to open source   
   their code.  Sadly, the source to Spitfire probably died with   
   Mike, and unless someone finds a copy and releases it, that'll   
   be that.   
      
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