> 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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