From: rag@hebron.connected.com (Richard Gillmann)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: DLX BBS Software now public domain freeware!
Date: 19 Apr 1994 21:50:23 -0700
Organization: Connected INC -- Full Service Internet Providers(tm)
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I am the author of the DLX BBS program.  DLX has been sold
commercially for years, but now I have decided to stop selling DLX,
to abandon my copyright on it, and to make DLX a freeware, public
domain program.

DLX runs on MS-DOS and supports up to 32 telephone lines at once on a
single computer.  It is a social BBS.  On a social BBS, the main
activity (in addition to file uploading and downloading), is
interacting with other callers by chatting or exchanging email.  DLX
supports two kinds of email: public and private, and two kinds of
chatting: one-on-one chatting and Open Forum (group chat), plus
questionaires and a matchmaker.

I am taking this action because I want to see social BBSes more
widely used.  Also, I would like to see them continue to evolve.  I
no longer have the time to do this work, and yet I don't want to see
DLX die.  Squeezing the last dime out of DLX as a commercial program
is not that important to me.

DLX is available for anonymous FTP from: hebron.connected.com
The file is: /pub/dlx/dlx70bbs.zip

If you prefer to download it over a telephone line, you can
get it from the DLX Support BBS at (206) 525-0995.

I have also included the complete source code for DLX in the zip
file.  DLX is written in Microsoft Pascal and MASM.  Nothing would
please me more than to have some kid in his bedroom write the next
great social BBS.  You are free to use this source code for any
purpose.  You may modify it and make your own BBS program, and even
copyright and sell your modified version.

Happy BBSing!
Richard Gillmann, Programmer
Inner Loop Software
rag@connected.com