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« on: 2009.06.30, 16:44:53 »
Hello Christian,
to a certain degree you are right, for sure, I am double minded, that is true.
- Yes , I am sometimes very dissappointed, not to say frustrated
- and Yes, sometimes I am quite in a kind of High spirits
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?
For me I always tried my best with my limited possibilities to at least participate in this development, to push something, to announce something, to make some advertisement, therefore I made the videos, spook at Warpstock about Netbooks and made the Howto's to that. That have been the times where I have been in
- high spirits: Yes - eComStation can be installed and runs on Netbooks! Yes - it runs on the Lenovo Thinkpad SL 300! Yes - it is possible to run Windows 7 in Virtualbox under eComStation! Yes, the first draft of eComStation/netbook videos have been seen by about 5.000 viewers! Yes - the OS/2 thread at ASUSEEEUSER.com have been hit more than 25.000 times (more than MacOS or Solaris...)!
Hope, this explains the rollercoaster I am driving here with eComStation.
Yes - you are right - deep in my mind I do not want to miss OS/2 - eComStation, I can not say why, it was the first operating system I ever owned, the first on my first PC. Due to the fact to have only Windows users around it has always mean something special (not in terms like something better) to use this Operating System. And it makes so much fun to fix problems with other users, with this community here, meet new people like Ed Durrant, Robert Lalla, and so on and so on.
But when it comes to Mensys - this outrages me! And this outrages me even more, when I think of all those people like you and a lot of others who do so much for this project, as I told you at os2.org as well.
So, please, do not take this as something counterproductive, I do not want to persuade anyone to anything or to start a "revolution", I just want to say : Thats pretty steep to treat customers like this!
And I know, this will change nothing, but after all this years, because of still having a great relation to this operating system, it would be to easy for me just to say goodbye.
To many have just gone.
Hi Thomas (warpcafe),
sorry, because of my limited english it took some time for me to answer to Christian, therefore I missed the meanwhile incoming.
Just to stress this - if it is adressed to me:
- I do not take part in coding or something like this because my programming skills are close to 0,00% (told before in other threads). To learn to program I simply do not have the time, I have to work and have a wife and three children. These are much more important to me. And that is the reason why a already paid for Mensys, and not only once!
- I do not have any problem about my "role in the OS/2 world", for me I do not play or have one, if it is so, sorry, I never realized it. And for me there is no need to play it. As told before: if one of my children becomes ill - that is the kind of problems wich are important to me
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.