From: "Rick R." <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:43:19 -0800 (PST)
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Anyone recall the laughs Bill Gates got when it came
out that he had his mansion designed on a Linux box?!

You are just doing the same, turning the whole
argument for eCS - OS/2 into a laughing stock.


--- Christian Langanke
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Christian Langanke
> COS2E & CWSE
> Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V.
> cla@clanganke.de
> 
>
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