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Rick R. wrote:
> I think that's highly appropriate.
> Not just because running an eCS/OS/2 group on
> none-OS/2 systems would make the whole thing the
> laughing stock of the Internet, but also because
> Windoze servers are known to intentionally mess up
> none-Windoze systems by introducing just enough
> none-standard overhead into protocols to make all hell
> breal loose.

Just to clarify, from what I have read netlabs is not running windows, but 
is running FreeBSD.  The change was mostly because Adrian is already admin 
for several BSD machines and it makes his life easier to have them all the 
same.  See http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.netlabs.org for 
confirmation.

I also think it is silly to require someone to use a specific platform 
especially when they are deriving no livelyhood from their service, but 
that is just my opinion.  I prefer OS/2-eComStation myself, and that is my 
primary, almost exclusive systems here for the past 14 years, but I also 
have Macs now for video processing, and even installed Linux on a couple 
machines to look at it.   That said, the two organizations I have been 
associated with, VOICE and Warpstock both continue to be hosted on OS/2 
machines.  But that has not always been the case depending on the site they 
were hosting things on.

I'm sure if someone offered netlabs substantial ongoing, committed support 
to host it on an OS/2 machine Adrian might reconsider.  But the fact is he 
is providing a free service to the OS/2-eCS user community and he has to 
take into account what is a most efficient way to do it.

Mark (I have no connection to netlabs other than a user of the many free 
products they serve, I'm just setting the record straight.)


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  From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel

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