Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: Redoing Mystic
From:    Adept(21:2/108)
Date:    Fri Aug 21, 2026 07:21

 Ni> I wonder if there's a chance g00r00 might be willing to make Mystic
 Ni> open-source and let others contribute to it.  I've heard g00r00 doesn't
 Ni> update Mystic very often; maybe others in the community would be willing
 Ni> to help maintain Mystic and address bugs & such while g00r00 is busy
 Ni> with other things.

I think that'd be a neat idea, but Mystic _used_ to be open source, and g00r00 felt it worked poorly enough that he stopped it.

I think the general idea is that there's not exactly a giant amount of people willing to work on the Mystic code base who have the skills / time / etc. to do so, so it being open source wound up just being more hassle.

But I don't know. Certainly, as people do other things or become unable to work on these things, it's nice if it's in such a way that people have the ability to pick it up, even if it rarely happens.

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