Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To   : Jas Hud
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon May 09 2022 09:34:24

On 09 May 22  07:02:02, Jas Hud said the following to Nick Andre:

JH> like i said, if you have a community that wants to help, that would benefit
JH> the product.   do you really need help or feedback? or are you the type of 
JH> person who doesn't want help or feedback? 

Help or feedback about how my software runs is one thing and in neverending
supply. Help with porting an obscure database library into something a
modern compiler can digest is something else. I have no help with that. But
I did get some nice feedback... "uhh yeah Nick good luck with that".

You keeping using that word community but I do not think it means what you
think it means. There is no community of BBS/Fido developers. They are few
and far between nowadays and they are often busy with their own stuff.

If you believe that me, G00R00, Rob, Andrew, TJ are all best friends sitting
on some magical wonderful Discord channel happily helping with eachothers code
with flowery emoticon-ridden feedback you are grossly mistaken.

JH> in g00r00's situation he yanked the source because someone posted it on hi
JH> website.  he said nobody was helping.  those guys have a small fishbowl so 

Seems to me G00R00 and Mystic are doing just fine for a closed-source program
that even the militant Linux keyboard warrior fanatics preaching about
open-source-everything just seem eager to have it installed and running like
kids opening Christmas presents. Hence my remark about moving goalposts.

My understanding is that you can do "everything" with the Mystic script 
language or whatever it has. So how exactly will Mystic be improved by making
it open source? You mention collaboration. On what part exactly? How will many
likely incompetent people messing with its code benefit the average Sysop?

Nick

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