To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Whining
Message-ID: <19970914.194724.7783.1.chambers.ben@juno.com>
From: chambers DOT ben AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:46:20 EDT
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Sorry if you all are sick of this subject, but it seems to me that the
people who are whining are the people who complain that we are spoiled
brats.  I'd just like to point out a few things:

1.	Caldera promised the full source code to OpenDOS.
2.	Some spents MONTHS trying out OpenDOS, as well as discussing
it's advantages and shortcomings.  Most of the discussions went along the
lines of planning out features to add, sometimes with the todo lists
going under dozens of revisions (remember the IFS argument?)
3.	Caldera now tries to claim they didn't promise full source code
to OpenDOS.

We are understandably upset.  I agree, that is no reason to whine.  So
why are you whining about 2 or 3 (original) complaints??? (Most of the
complaints after that were in response to the "Stop Whinings You Spoiled
Brats" messages).
I went back to school.  I got snowed under with homework.  I don't check
my email for a while.  Then, when I have a chance, what do I find? Dozens
of junk messages, complaining about complaints.  PLEASE, people, if I had
time to read that many I'd still be on the djgpp list!  We have better
things to do than this!  As for me, I'm officially signing off the list
tonight.  It's obvious nothing worthwhile will come from this list again.

...Chambers
(About #2 above:
Personally, I don't know enough about OS design to actually fiddle with
the sources of OpenDOS - I haven't even DL'd it yet.  I was waiting for
people to get through their initial frenzy of coding for it so I could
test out the new features and start writing END PRODUCTS for it {doing as
much as possible to make it Non-MS compatible :}, but it looks like that
won't happen now.)