Hinrich Eilts, Author of ipxtund, Where are You?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 9, 2002 @11:47AM from the are-ya-still-out-there dept.

Leandro Dardini is desperately seeking Hinrich: "As consultant for a local provider, I have to present a solution for a big problem: tunnel IPX over IP to permit old application users to connect via Internet. After digging google, I found ipxtund, written by Hinrich Eilts in 1998. It works great even after 4 years, but I have a question to the author. The author vanished. After searching again in Google, I found the last clue of Hinrich in a post on 23 Jul 1999, then nothing. I don't want to think the worst, but, Hinrich Eilts, where are you?"

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Doesn't all software end up being Disappearware? by bleeeeck · 2002-07-09 14:21 · Score: 4, Insightful

Throwing this out as an 'Ask Slashdot' topic makes it a hard-data example that entities pushing proprietary software, i.e. Microsoft, can point to when making the case that 'you won't have anybody to call' with Free Software.
Hmmm, as far as I know Microsoft doesn't support Win95 any more. Isn't that just the way of all old software, free or non-free?