Re: WRKDBF -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: WRKDBF
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:15:37 -0400
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Bill did write a great piece of code - it was early 90's and originally only for one corp as a helpdesk and pgmr app, with well over 100 systems. Even if Bill wanted to, there may be legal issues with the open source idea.
Jim Franz
---- Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... or open-sourced it so that we could continue on the work he put into
place.

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The iSeries community owes a huge debt to Bill Reger, and I only wish he
had decided to bring the tool into the next generation of applications.

--
Mike Wills

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