To: digimaus
  Re: Re: Telegard
  By: digimaus to Jas Hud on Tue Apr 12 2022 07:40 pm

 > From Newsgroup: Micronet.MIN_CHAT
 >
 > -=> Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
 >
 >  JH> he probably just didnt know how to program, or program well. a lot of
 >  JH> guys that take over for bbs development don't have what it takes in
 >  JH> some shape or form.
 >
 > No, he was a great programmer.  TG was written in Pascal, C, and assembler.
 > Tim had other priorities though.  I once called him at work which surprised
 > the hell out of him.  I asked about buying the TG code and he gave me a huge
 > line of bullshit about copyrights, this, that and the other -- anything he
 > could think of to try to get me off the phone.
 >
 > What had really happened is that he lost the source code to TG and didn't
 > want to admit it, that's all.
 >


oh the ole sysop no backup thing.  that's what got roland de graaf.

if you would have called me at work i would have told you to fuck off too,
though.

it could also be that he was embarassed of the source code like some other guys
were....
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