[Info-vax] VSI licencing policy (again), was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-08-06 kl. 12:39, skrev calliet gérard:
> Le 05/08/2021 à 14:07, Simon Clubley a écrit :
>> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> My bad english is perhaps a cause of a misunderstanding.
> 
> I do like children with white hairs - oh, bad response -.
> 
> More seriously, I couldn't stand Jan-Erik speaking about little sortable 
> issues in France, and c.o.v. "being negative as usual".

Hm... I'm sorry if it sounded like I thought that there wasn't some
serious issues in the France VMS community. I fully understand that.

Sorry if I expressed myself in an unclear way. Hard to tell since
I do not know what post from me you are refering to.

Regards,

Jan-Erik.


> 
> In France, as an independent consultant for VMS, it seems there is no 
> future. Every customer we know have decided to go out. I know One 
> exception, yes.

At our site, the expected lifetime for our VMS system is 5-10 years.
After that it is very hard to tell what happens. Have we been able to
continue supporting the factory in an acceptable way? Who knows...

And I have my retirement in 2-3 years, if not sooner, anyway.


> 
> Perhaps France is an exception, and for sure some big companies are VSI 
> best friends - or they say that -. And the VSI offer is good for them. What 
> will be the VMS future if only a small kernel of users continues? Will not 
> this happy fews being sometimes worried about their loneliness?
> 
> Anyway the situation in France is very bad, so it is a little bit difficult 
> to hear we have in France just some tractable issues.
> 
> And what about c.o.v.? A little bit sterile discutions? Not this one, 
> perhaps. More than that: is it so evident that criticizing VSI is just 
> empty words?

Not fully empty, but talking directly to VSI is probably better, IMHO.

> 
> My summary is we have a cultural problem. VSI redoes the Digital way of not 
> hearing the customers, we redo the adoration way we had in the 80s.
> 
> I recognize in the way we justify everything done by The Company the very 
> precious and kind loyalty I appreciate in the community. My opinion is we 
> can be sometimes more loyal committing lèse majesté crimes, when we think 
> there is a danger in the kingdom :)
> 
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