[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[gérard Calliet]

Le 18/12/2018 à 01:51, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
> On 12/14/2018 10:16 AM, gérard Calliet wrote:
>> Done. I'm beginning to understand the "goal" here, at c.o.v.: some 
>> bitter discussions between "old men".
> 
> There is really nothing wrong with being old or with discussions.
> 
> The biggest problem here is the lack of action.
No doubt it is the real problem.

Because it is really a shrinked community [reality],

and perhaps because of an (understandable?) pessimism [historical context],

and perhaps because VMS community is first a community of customers, not 
actors - unlike linux community, or any language centered or tool 
centered community - [cultural issue]

I agree with JE not about having a sight outside to the new things, 
because we have it - strange this attitude thinking about old people as 
dumb :) - but I think we could have a sight outside to understand why 
other communities succeeded.
> 
> If somebody bring up the topic of what DEC should have done
> in the late 1980's there will be 20 people with a strong opinion.
> 
> If somebody ask for volunteers to take over maintenance of the
> VMS port of some open source there will be zero takers.
> 
> That is a real problem.
> 
>> And, no, no, you are proving you are older than all, here. The war 
>> between the old and the modern is the oldest war, the most sterile, 
>> and the most absurd.
> 
> This place definitely have a higher rate of "the old way is better"
> or "if it works then no need to change it" than most internet
> fora, but there are other fora with the opposite situation
> a high rate of "the new way is better" or "we need to change to
> do something".
> 
> Life.
Life is a very old thing where sometimes one side of the other of this 
contradiction wins. And so arguing from either side is not arguing.
> 
> Arne
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