Hello All,

Ray Gwinn and I are in discussion about my taking over the care and feeding of SIO/VMODEM (a telnet engine/virtual modem/FOSSIL driver for OS/2 that Ray developed about 25 years ago). Nothing is set in stone yet but the discussion is going well.

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On Tue Aug 2 11:48:00 2022, Sean Dennis wrote to All <=-

Hello All,
Ray Gwinn and I are in discussion about my taking over the care and feeding of
SIO/VMODEM (a telnet engine/virtual modem/FOSSIL driver for OS/2 that Ray developed about 25 years ago). Nothing is set in stone yet but the discussion
is going well.

Great news! Hopefully...we can see a way to register it or have it go open source the same way some of the old BBS software you can use with the consent of the author.

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On 06 Aug 2022, Don Lowery said the following...

Great news! Hopefully...we can see a way to register it or have it go
open source the same way some of the old BBS software you can use with
the consent of the author.

tbh if it's not open source it's not a win for the os/2 bbs community at all..

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Hello Don,

Saturday August 06 2022 03:11, you wrote to me:

Great news! Hopefully...we can see a way to register it or have it go
open source the same way some of the old BBS software you can use with
the consent of the author.

It will never be open source because the use of commercial libraries but I plan on giving out free registrations.

-- Sean

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On 06 Aug 2022, Sean Dennis said the following...

Hello Don,

Saturday August 06 2022 03:11, you wrote to me:

Great news! Hopefully...we can see a way to register it or have it go open source the same way some of the old BBS software you can use wit the consent of the author.

It will never be open source because the use of commercial libraries but
I plan on giving out free registrations.

I'm just wondering... will you be able to fix any bugs or add to it, if need be, or is it locked in time and all we can do is get a registered copy??

IB Joe
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Hello Sean,

06 Aug 22 10:06, Sean Dennis wrote to Don Lowery:

Great news! Hopefully...we can see a way to register it or have it go
open source the same way some of the old BBS software you can use with
the consent of the author.

It will never be open source because the use of commercial libraries but I plan on giving out free registrations.

The topic of further development/release of Sio comes up like Christmas every year. Sometimes the sources have disappeared or they're in the basement and Ray can't get there anymore.

Ok, it's up to Ray what he does with it. Only I find it ridiculous to keep waving the sausage.

I don't want to take away your hope now, but I'm skeptical that it will work this time.

regards, Dieter

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Hello IB,

06 Aug 22 10:45, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

On 06 Aug 2022, Sean Dennis said the following...

Hello Don,

Saturday August 06 2022 03:11, you wrote to me:

Great news! Hopefully...we can see a way to register it or
have it go open source the same way some of the old BBS
software you can use wit the consent of the author.

It will never be open source because the use of commercial
libraries but I plan on giving out free registrations.

I'm just wondering... will you be able to fix any bugs or add to it,
if need be, or is it locked in time and all we can do is get a
registered copy??

you already can have a registered copy as Ray Gwinn gave the permission 1-2 years ago. even i can send you a copy if you want. :)

Regards,
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IB Joe wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I'm just wondering... will you be able to fix any bugs or
add to it, if need be, or is it locked in time and all we
can do is get a registered copy??

First, I need to learn assembly language. <G>

I plan on fixing bugs in both versions though I will not likely touch
version 1.60d. I do want to try to fix SIO2K's habit of not working
on certain hardware combinations though. I may set up a dedicated
testing team.

I do not plan on charging for a registration but may take donations
in kind if people find my work useful.

I understand this is a niche product these days but I'd like to keep
it going.

-- Sean

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Dieter Schauf wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I don't want to take away your hope now, but I'm skeptical
that it will work this time.

I won't know until I try.

-- Sean


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Daniel Path wrote to IB Joe <=-

you already can have a registered copy as Ray Gwinn gave
the permission 1-2 years ago. even i can send you a copy if
you want. :)

I'll be changing the registration algorithm for both versions of
SIO...

-- Sean


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On 06 Aug 2022, IB Joe said the following...

I'm just wondering... will you be able to fix any bugs or add to it, if need be, or is it locked in time and all we can do is get a registered copy??

Ray wasn't confident he could even teach someone how to compile it
without a long weekend with them in-person. Let alone improve upon it.

You don't just pick up assembly. Or driver programming. I still think it's better off with netlabs or the like. And if it's what I'm thinking.. they already have a license to this other code.. the IBM Device Driver Development Kit..

I really don't mean to offend heh

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Hello Sean,

06 Aug 22 16:13, you wrote to me:

Daniel Path wrote to IB Joe <=-

you already can have a registered copy as Ray Gwinn gave
the permission 1-2 years ago. even i can send you a copy if
you want. :)

I'll be changing the registration algorithm for both versions of
SIO...

why wasting your time instead of fixing bugs?

do you have a list of bugs you want to fix?

Regards,
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Hello Sean!

I won't know until I try.

If you need someone for testing, just drop a notice to me.

-- Sean

Bye/2 Torsten

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Re: Re: News
By: Sean Dennis to Daniel Path on Sat Aug 06 2022 04:13 pm

Daniel Path wrote to IB Joe <=-

you already can have a registered copy as Ray Gwinn gave
the permission 1-2 years ago. even i can send you a copy if
you want. :)

I'll be changing the registration algorithm for both versions of
SIO...

Hopefully you (or someone) would just be removing all the registration/copy-protection mechanisms altogether.
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