Subj : Re: Internet Rex and Debian Linux
To : Roy Witt
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon Oct 01 2012 09:28 pm
On 01 Oct 12 17:45:28, Roy Witt said the following to Nicholas Boel:
RW> I agree with that, but I'm in no position to 'talk' him into releasing
RW> the source. I'd discourage anyone from registering irex and just persue
RW> using the unregistered version or looking into offering to buy someone
RW> else's key. This isn't anything new, as I was given a key generator for
RW> FastEcho 1.46 which can open that program for max use...
I was a fan of Irex for a long time in the late 90's I think it was, and
bought a 50 or 100-node license for it, I forget which. Pretty sure it
was the 100 node one. Money wasn't so much the issue as it was "unlocking" its
limitation. Sure I could hex-edit the thing, but went with the honourable
approach. And I bought my key I think two years after Charles went AWOL.
When I did the work that I did to DB, I transferred my license to a fellow
Sysop who makes good use of it to this day. I got the momentary
warm-and-fuzzy-feeling of doing a good deed for someone "in need".
If Charles would at least program a key-generator, it would at least put the
whole continuing-to-charge-$ discussion/arguments to rest. Or at least some
sort of disclaimer indicating that the product is sold as-is with no more
official support from the author.
I think there were rumors here that he "lost" the source code, which I find a
bit hard to believe as that was a very large project to -not- have backups of
the source code for, and a project that brought in a nice amount of $$$.
