From: eric@e-selex.com   
      
   So, I've been fishing through a lot of the posts on this newsgroup. It's   
   good to see that not only the BBS community is brought together, but also   
   the actual people who've worked on the software still lurk here as well.   
      
   I've recently began reverse engineering a lot of MajorBBS applications as to   
   register them. As you know, a lot of companies who produced software for   
   MajorBBS have long since gone out of business (High Velocity Software and   
   many, many others).   
      
   I'm reaching out to any developers out there who know a thing or two about   
   reverse engineering. MajorBBS DLLs are fairly easy to crack open (WIN32DASM   
   actually will disassemble DLLs nicely), and editing procedural applications   
   at the ASM level are much, much easier than OOP applications (as many   
   reverse engineers will tell you).   
      
   I understand that a lot of modules are still under copyright and are   
   currently being developed and sold (Lunatix, T-LORD, some IGMs and all the   
   modules being sold at Gameport), but I think there should be an open effort   
   at fully unlocking "abandonware" modules that obtaining   
   registration/activation today would be impossible.   
      
   I'm interested to hear thoughts/feedback on the subject.   
      
   - E. Nusbaum   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)