fP modernization

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:18 PM
Subject: RE: fP modernization


>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Anthony
>> Terrible
>> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:54 PM
>> To: File Pro List
>> Subject: Re: fP modernization
>
> [snip]
>>
>> Well while I agree with what you said, my take is Fp did speak about the
>> future, and it was biometrics, not File Pro. And lets be honest,
>> File Pro is
>> so far behind the times, it would take and enormous amount of money and
>> effort to bring to where it needs to be and to what, go head to head with
>> Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM? Might as well put a gun to your head.
>
> This is kind of "exactly" the kind of thing I hadn't wanted to start in 
> any
> way with my move-to-Linux message and its look toward the future... glad 
> it
> is in this thread not mine... Now, let's see, glad is not really the word.
> More like *mad*... angry... annoyed... pissed off. Mark was trying to make
> legitimate (and courteous) remarks regarding his outlook on the product 
> this
> forum is all about. You, on the other hand, are just irritating and
> obviously just want to be that and nothing more. Where is the substance in
> your statement. Do you actually think people here who use filePro and care
> about it, *want* to hear the kind of thing you spit out with such venom. 
> I'm
> doubting very much that anyone cares what you think when you throw out 
> such
> [...more and worse snipped...]

What the heck is your problem?

I completely agreed with everything you said in your other post about moving 
to linux, both the gradual increase in the difficulties of living withe SCO 
and the stuff that pointed out how inconvenient it is to deal with filepro 
when it comes to upgrading and switching platforms and running parralel 
during a migration etc... Those kind of hassles are intolerable hinderances 
to flexability.
We're in the same boat. I've been slowly getting 2 new big linux boxes ready 
for several weeks after briefly trying out osr6 and not even considering 
staying on 506 or 507.
It is indeed a fair project. You can do 90% of it in a day or even a few 
hours, but the last 10% seems to take forever.

But this here?
Tony's post had nothing in it that deserves this.
He expressed a completely reasonable and understandable summation of the 
facts of life.
He didn't try to tell anyone to dump fp and wasn't pointlessly slandering or 
maligning them.
In fact, to me he sounded sympathetic to fp's predicament more than anything 
else.

Have you some medical condition that excuses you from civilized conduct or 
are you just an asshole?

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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