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 Message 30 
 ATREYU to Benny Pedersen 
 Re: alive? 
  
 
On 09 Oct 11  13:22:20, Benny Pedersen said the following to Nick Andre:

BP> i was ironical here

It was Lost In Translation.

BP>  NA> Nope. He lost the source code or something. That has been discussed 
BP>  NA> to death in the IREX echo...
BP> 
BP> yep, if it was opensource it have backups, its like Linus Thorwalds fameous
BP> write code and let the world make backups

Software doesn't need to be open-source to have backups, obi-wan.

BP> i am happy to know you got inspirated from irex, irex is cool imho, but wit
BP> lost source there is no future of it anymore, only can hope the money
BP> collection will make author begin code irex ng or simply pay back in other
BP> ways, on the other hands if he give them to grandchilds that runs fidonet
BP> nodes its still cool :)

That will never happen. IREX is abandonware for good. There is simply no 
incentive anymore to rewrite it from scratch. As far as I know there is not 
even an API or published database-record format, so writing a "clone" that 
will work with everyone's existing configuration files is almost impossible.

Nick

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