Hello Christian,
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Why?:
- Frustrated: because of the NONE Information given by Mensys, all the problems, discussed for years now, never changed, never got the point, never showed something like a plan behind it, - especially all those days when it comes that announced deadlines have passed away without any information, proofed several times. And I hope you do not think I want to behave like the people you have in mind, want to destroy something or just complaining. No - I am at least a customer who payed once (and again) for something promised that actually did not happen.
And I think it is not fair to say criticism is not fair because this damages the people who still do a lot for this project. Shouldn`t it be allowed to do so? To tell your opinion?
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And that Mensys brings the stuff, no one else is able or willing to do: Yes - that is what I as a customer can demand when I payed for it, isn't it? That seems to me logical and usual in business.
Why is it a problem to tell that I am not satisfied with that what is provided from Mensys?
And you are right: what is the REAL change in this situation? NOTHING.
The fact that you get little, to information, is because of the simple fact that its to busy here at Mensys.
And I wish it was, honestly, it was different! People see that as an excuse, when I mention that.
Yes it only takes 5 minutes to do that crucial website update for information. The R&D (research and development) that takes place here consumes masses of time. And it seems few people are willing to do that R&D.
Its thanks to the R&D that I did here that RSPINST from IBM runs on Athlon 64 and that we can install eCS. Certainly its taken for granted and you as a community certainly have a right to expect a working product that you buy!
Some people blaim project management. But in my view when you drill deeper into the sollutions handed down by people, to improve project management, thats when the wrinkels become visable in theory handed down. For eCS 2.0 50% of the orginal feature set has already been scrapped and moved for beyond eCS 2.0. eCS 2.0 is the big pickup OS/2 needed after IBM basicly did Warp 4. And I knew it would be difficult, but that difficult as its turning to be, not ?
You know all does people who talk about a "plan". It was such uncharted terrain where ACPI would take us. As it would push the OS2KRNL to new limits never done before. Is ACPI working the way it should ? No its not. But just like with most eCS code it needs time to mature. The disc resizer and Samba for example. eCS 2.0 Silver release will contain a very mature implementation of Samba for example.
eCS 2.0 has been feature complete for almost 2 years now. But it has not beens stable enough for shipment as a GA product.
Mensys is involved with to many things. And yes we do cream off all types of projects. Some people claim to know what we do in daily live in the office here. But in my humble view sometimes a distorted picture has been given by how "ineffcient" we sometimes work.
We are certainly greatfull for the volenteers working on eComStation! And yes they are out there.
People like Peter Weilbacher, Alex Taylor, Jaques van Leeuwen, just mention a few names.
We have already jacked up the amount of funding much further to get things done. By hiring people!
I'm not aware of a such a small company that is so interwoven in a community as Mensys is with Joachim and me (Roderick).
So far we make certain we get an Open Office on eCS. I'm trying to pull the OS/2 VOICE back on track. How often Warpstock got started or was even made possible because I persoanly stuck my neck out in the last years to various degrees.
Some people can stand comfirm that here on os2world.com.
We invested time and money to debug UNIAUD. Guess why WIN32PRN was started in 2002, that was me (oke it did not work out as planned). Flash 10 is still on track and being worked (some people outside Mensys now have an early test version).
SNAP got stranded and Panorama is here now and working not that bad. I'm emailing with the guy that will the DANIS506.ADD / AHCI device driver developer (follow up of SATA). I'm coordinating extra investment in CUPS via VOICE to fix the printer driver problem. USB drivers being worked in the background.
Is eComStation a commercial, venture, yes it is! Should Mensys be involved with all the community stuff ?
Well no, but honestly I have tried to outsource stuff out the door so I could focus on the more big picture.
But that has worked out mostely differently then planned...
Any volunteers for VOICE ?
Roderick Klein
Mensys