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    From Matthew Munson@1:218/109 to All on Thu Sep 5 00:11:02 2019
    I wonder if I am able to contact the rightsholders to the program, do you think a big
    amount of money will be needed to buy the rights to the program if they still have the
    source code to it?
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Matthew Munson on Thu Sep 5 14:03:08 2019

    On 2019 Sep 05 00:11:02, you wrote to All:

    I wonder if I am able to contact the rightsholders to the program, do you think a big amount of money will be needed to buy the rights to the
    program
    if they still have the source code to it?

    that depends on who has the code and what they can and are willing to do with it... they might just give it to you if you're going to open source it and keep it viable in today's world... open sourcing it could be a big job, though, if commercial closed libraries are/were used... those routines would need to be replaced...

    )\/(ark

    Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
    ... I believe we are on an irreversible trend - but that could change.
    ---
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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Matthew Munson on Sat Sep 7 20:32:47 2019
    I wonder if I am able to contact the rightsholders to the program,
    do you think a big
    amount of money will be needed to buy the rights to the program if
    they still have the
    source code to it?

    you would probably have to contact one of the original MSI folks about that. if you can.


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  • From Matthew Munson@1:218/109 to Mark Lewis on Thu Sep 5 22:15:48 2019
    On 9/5/2019 2:07 PM, Mark Lewis wrote to Matthew Munson:


    On 2019 Sep 05 00:11:02, you wrote to All:

    I wonder if I am able to contact the rightsholders to the program, do
    you
    think a big amount of money will be needed to buy the rights to the
    program
    if they still have the source code to it?

    that depends on who has the code and what they can and are willing to do
    with
    it... they might just give it to you if you're going to open source it and
    keep
    it viable in today's world... open sourcing it could be a big job, though,
    if
    commercial closed libraries are/were used... those routines would need to
    be
    replaced...
    Sadly the rightsholders refused to communicate back, but i guess they like their assets
    not being used or sold for money for another 20 years where the value goes down
    even
    further.
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Matthew Munson on Mon Sep 9 11:27:16 2019
    Matthew Munson wrote to Mark Lewis <=-

    Sadly the rightsholders refused to communicate back, but i
    guess they like their assets
    not being used or sold for money for another 20 years where
    the value goes down even
    further.

    Why are you wanting to resurrect something like that when there's much
    better alternatives out there already that are free? I don't understand spending time and energy on that.

    I can think of several programs: Qodem (which is a workalike of the
    original Qmodem), Syncterm, Netrunner, mTel, Zap-O-Comm (ZOC; not cheap
    but has been around for decades), and others that I can't think of right
    now.

    I use Qodem under Window and Linux. Under OS/2, I use Livewire which is OS-specific.

    Later,
    Sean

    ... If nobody uses it, there's a reason.
    ___ MultiMail/Win v0.52

    --- Maximus/2 3.01
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