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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BBS Software
Summary: XBBS is free!
Message-ID: <12409@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 21:27:38 GMT
References: <956@galaxy> <5802@hoptoad.uucp> <6569@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <2054@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <109@otishq.UUCP> <2069@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
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In article <2069@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
>In article <109@otishq.UUCP> guardian@otishq.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes:
>>In article <2054@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, pete@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peter Franks) writes:
>>> In article <6569@spool.cs.wisc.edu> thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes:
>>> (It's priced reasonably, too.)
>>
>>Too many BBS software packages are "Priced".  I agree that shareware should 
>I guess if your time is free (and worthless), then the decision
>is easy -- you go with the package that's out there, free, and works most of
>the time.
>
>But what if you don't like that product's features/misfeatures?  What if you
>want more?  

If you are running XBBS, you just add the features yourself.  The source
code has been placed in the public domain by the author.  With source code,
you can modify it any way you like.  

>What if you want someone to yell at when it breaks, someone who
>will fix it and quick?

What if you'd rather fix it yourself, so that it is done right and 
you don't have to wait on someone else to get around to doing the work
for you?  There is _no_ substitute for having the source code.

>Well, I guess you can either write it yourself, or pay someone else to (or
>pay for someone else's solution that's already written).

Or, you can get XBBS.  It's free.  It runs under Sys V.  
With an obect-only BBS, you never know if the author has put a backdoor
into the code or not.  Source code is the only way to go.




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