Ron Seybold ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (Steven : Verona) wrote: : > : > One last point, you eluded to the fact that you think my response was : > irresponsible. I feel as though MY RESPONSE IS RESPONSIBLE. I have a : > responsibility to inform people of their options. You, as a writer and : > journalist, have a similar responsibility. I suggest that you check : > your facts before publishing them and you keep your biases out of your : > writing. : OOOH, a flame war. : >You should be informing people of the pros and cons of : > migrations and not stating your somewhat uninformed opinions as fact. : The above facts are the cons of migrations. They are almost as informed as : any other viewpoints being shared here. (I still defer to customers, : systems managers and developers. I'm none of those, just somebody writing : down what I hear.) I suppose because my viewpoints differ from yours, they : seem less informed. I've heard the HP3000 called proprietary too many : times by Steven, Rick Hardman and Chuck Cotter at DB-Net to believe they : take an unbiased view of that system. Everything is proprietary, or it's : vanilla junk. Fine-tuning something for performance and exclusive : functionality introduces differences. Every version of Unix has : differences -- or are those proprietary features? Everything is proprietary? or it's Vanilla Junk? I take it then we should dump our keyboards.... :) That is a big statment...... Ok flamewar it is..... Someone has called us Unix people over to this news groupt but I think it's more effective if I cross post to comp.unix.advocacy Personaly I think we should just make all the comp.*.advocacy groups into one news group comp.my_computer.advocacy becouse thies things get cross posted to all the other advocacy groups anyway.... Jeff