Subj : Re: Net2BBS
To   : T.J. Mcmillen
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Mon Mar 22 2021 11:00 am

TM>MJ> I know he charged an arm and a leg:

TM> WHERE are you getting all this OLD $H!T NEWS?!?!?!

Chris Irwin is the originator of the product, he did charge for user-keys and had a complete network with commercial representation. Several authors tried to make a buck out of Fido but I think there were no major commercial successes.

So eventually in the 2nd part of the 90-ies Chris Irwin effectively abandoned it. He briefly showed-up at the end of 1999 to deal with some Y2K-issues but lived-up to the common perception that whenever he solved a bug in D'Bridge, he created 2 others. His Y2K-version was crap and removed here the day it was installed, went back to 1.85 and the by then known bugs with their work-arounds. I think around that time I was the only user remaining and that did't change for some years.

The work-arounds were lovely, I even managed to get 1.85 to function in an IP-environment.

Then came this spoiled bratt from somewhere Toronto who convinced Chris Irwin to release the code, which Chris eventually reluctantly did as if he was giving away the PIN-code of Fort Knox.

I think one of the first things Nick did was to kick-out the key-code ... and then the picture changed. New stuff happened ...

\%/@rd

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