Subj : What I Don't Like About Synchronet
To   : Ryan de Laplante
From : andrew clarke
Date : Tue May 01 2007 03:37 am

Mon 2007-04-30 08:53, Ryan de Laplante (1:229/1394) wrote to Mvan Le:

RdL> In 2003 when I broguht my bbs back to life I insisted on keeping
RdL> it Maximus, or not opening it again.  I gave the new Linux
RdL> maximus a try but it wasn't usable so I waited it out.... for 4
RdL> YEARS.  Read the MUFFIN archives, you'll see my posts have always
RdL> asked about supporting DOS doors.  How much longer am I supposed
RdL> to wait to get Maximus running in Linux with DOS doors?

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but this is a poor attitude to take towards free
software, especially open source stuff.  We are all volunteers, so you can't
just go around expecting people to make things work for you.  If you're unable
to pay someone to get something working, then you're pretty much stuck with
trying to do it yourself, or not doing it, because there are very few (near
zero) people left in FidoNet who have the time or inclination to write code for
BBS software - especially code that they will probably never use themselves.

I still think it's remarkable that the source code to Maximus and Squish was
released at all, given the amount of work that went into it, to make it even
possible for it to be ported to Linux.

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