Subj : Bug report
To : james coyle
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon Mar 12 2012 10:40 pm
Hello james,
On Sunday March 11 2012 04:08, you wrote to me:
jc> However, on another message network someone recently claimed that they
jc> had just paid (within a month or so) for IREX and received a response
jc> and a key.
jc> *If* that is true, to me its fraud and it needs to be stopped.
I have no reason tp doubt that is indeed what happened. But I would not call it
fraud. That's to big a word. I'd call it indecent salesmanship.
jc> He needs to release it, or work on it (if he really is still taking
jc> peoples money). Or we need to start a project to replace it (open
jc> sourced).
I can understand the concept of limited commercial lifetime of products. I can
understand and accept that support for a product is not forever. At some point
in time it stops. But... that should work both ways. When the support stops,
the revenue should stop as well. Support is INCLUDED in the deal when buying a
product. So stopping the support but continuing to accept money for it, is
unethical. Just my EUR 0.02
jc> I have an open sourced framework that when combined with Argus or
jc> something could recreate IREX and then some with only a little group
jc> effort from programmers.
Will all due respect, I think that is too ambitious. Recreating Irex from
scratch is a major project, I do not think with the few programmers left in
FidoNet we can raise the manpower to do that.
Cheers, Michiel
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