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- From: Les_Jenkins@lppl.mi.org (Les Jenkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: C-NET
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Les_Jenkins.043k@lppl.mi.org>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 17:34:47 EST
- Organization: Les's Place BBS
- Lines: 45
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- In a message dated Fri 21 Aug 92 4:19, Vidiot.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
- wrote:
-
- V> Truthfully, I have no idea about code "ripped-off" by Ken in C-Net. I
- V> have been using C-Net for a great deal of time now and love it. If he
- V> ripped-off code, that's between him and the original author of that
- code.
-
- V> I've used the Excelsior Demo. I believe that it fair to say you have
- V> ripped-off C-Net in so much as "look-and-feel". NOW DON'T START
- V> SCREAMING! I have no problem with Excelsior. It seemed to be a very
- V> stable BBS, and I have no problem with "look-and-feel", I got rid of my
- V> Apple computer largely because I detested the companies policies on
- such
- V> matters.
-
- I think thats a bit hypercritical. You say you don't care if Ken has ripped
- off code from someone else, but will call Excelsior a rip-off just because
- it looks like C-Net.
-
- DLG Pro reminds many of my IBM users of Opus BBS at first glance, but that
- doesn't make DLG a rip-off of it.
-
- Besides, this isn't the first time the look-and-feel of C-Net has been
- copied. It's happened before on the C-64/128 for many of the same reasons.
- The authors of the look-alike loved the setup and hated Ken's coding
- practices so they did their own and made it better.
-
- As much as I don't care for the method of storage used by C-Net and
- Excelsior from what I have seen of the Excelsior Demo it looks to be a much
- better designed BBS. With any luck Excelsior will take off and replace
- C-Net in the market. Ken needs a good financial shake up to get him to
- clean up his act.
-
-
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