From: "Christian Langanke" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:50:44 +0100
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Neil Waldhauer wrote:
> This is off-topic, but I disagree with you and Rick and anyone else who thinks
> the world is paying enough attention to think of us.
>   

Neil,

I very much disagree as well, I second your reason very much, and I see 
another one.

Rules in general are nothing bad,  (but beside personal taste and 
popular demands) they normally are intended to help achieving a 
meaningful goal. But for this os rule I doubt that it leads to a 
meaningful goal in our days, in fact today I consider it being 
counterproductive if it is about building and keeping the eCS community 
together (this may well have been different in 2002). The reason for 
this is that I think no service that promotes eCS should be disclosed 
from any offer of another eCS related service, as long as it serves the 
goal of promoting eCS. I would be happy to have thousand of linux boxes, 
or even MS doing eCS promotion on thousands of W2k3 boxes if they only 
would like to :-)

IMHO promoting eCS should be the only criteria for letting users and 
services take part in an eCS related community and their offerings. And 
concerning that I would consider netlabs.org being at least one of the 
most valuable platforms around. I don't know a single website that has 
done that much for OS/2 and eComStation projects and with it application 
development as netlabs.org did in the last ten years. And I see _no 
single site_ that has done only a little part of the effort to keep the 
OS/2 & eCS idea running further in the future.

Therefore I conclude: rules are good, but they sometimes have to be 
changed. Change this one, it is high time!

bye, Christian

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Christian Langanke
COS2E & CWSE
Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V.
cla@clanganke.de