[Info-vax] Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <2e2dnZ5RgYRurDzPnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> On 11/24/2013 3:57 AM, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:
>> Le 23/11/2013 12:49, Jan-Erik Soderholm a écrit :
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2013-11-23 03:01:
>>>> On 11/18/2013 3:42 AM, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:
>>>>> Le 18/11/2013 08:09, Michael Kraemer a écrit :
>>>>>> Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) schrieb:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Have a look on our site (www.hp-interex.fr), download a .ppt (Vms
>>>>>>> friends, season 1). Have a look on the two first slides.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And what shall we do with a ppt on VMS?
>>>>>>
>>>>> In these ppt, there are arguments and analysis, notably an analysis
>>>>> about how VMS community can be manipulated by HP.
>>>>> But what is to be done are actions, for sure. We initiated in france
>>>>> the
>>>>> survey you can read on our site. As a milestone. Perhaps the first
>>>>> think
>>>>> is to know who we are as VMS users, how many, which needs...
>>>>> In france, like in another countries, I think, we have very few means,
>>>>> and an initiative like ours must be relayed to succeed.
>>>>> VMS friends need friends.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I give up!  What is "ppt"?
>>>>
>>>
> 
> If you are crippled and unable to type the full text, e.g. "Power Point" 
> you may have some excuse for for abbreviating "Power Point".
> 
> My English Composition Instructor would have insisted that the full name 
> be used.

omg!!  lol...

English ain't what it used to be.

> 
>>> What a childish behavior...
> 
> I'd call it "Lazy".

Or just using common behaviour.  When was the last time you wrote out
"American Standard Code for Information Interchange".  Or are you "lazy"
and just type ASCII.

>>>
>>> Entering "ppt" in Google gave these two pages as
>>> the *first two* hits:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPT
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint
>>>
>>> But then, if one can post silly posts about simple
>>> spelling errors, I guess one also feels free to spam
>>> c.o.v with this kind of idiotic posts...
>>>
>>> Grow up.
>>>
>>>
>> Don't worry about it Jan-Erik : perhaps Mr Richard B. Gilbert give up
>> about VMS, and his message is just despair.
>>
>> And, like me, he doesn't unserstdand how just three letters P P T can
>> transform a bunch of professionals in a sort of delirious court.
>>
>> Perhaps VMS is already in hell, and all we can do is, like Dante (oups,
>> some european culture,I apologize) claming some poems as we go down
>> throught circles of hell.
>>
>> More seriously, I repeat : who is going in Barcelona at HP Discover, 6th
>> december ? Can we meet there ? And do something ?
>>
>>
> 

bill

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