This confirm perfectly my toughts (like "ibm won't eat its own food ").
We are considered by all the world a bounch of clowns since we don't
like to use the same "stuff" we advocate/promote.
I believe there's no more to add.
Bye.
Massimo
In data 12/2/2007, "Rick R." <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> ha
scritto:
>I think is says A LOT if even the folks at Netlabs
>think that OS/2 is not up to the job :-(
>
>
>--- madodel <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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.)
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel
>>
>> Warpstock 2007 - Where?, http://www.warpstock.org
>> Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net
>>
>>
>> For a choice in the future of personal computing,
>> Join VOICE -
>> http://www.os2voice.org
>>
>> "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the
>> people tolerate the
>> growth of private power to a point where it becomes
>> stronger than their
>> democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is
>> Fascism - ownership of
>> government by an individual, by a group or by any
>> controlling private
>> power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing
>> the Monopoly
>> Investigation, 1938
>>
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