[Info-vax] You are invited to join the VMS Software. Inc Forum.

[Dave Froble]

On 8/6/2021 1:17 PM, abrsvc wrote:
> On Friday, August 6, 2021 at 1:11:55 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-08-06, David Sweeney <dsweene... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> VMS Software, Inc. invites all comp.os.vms users to also participate in the VSI OpenVMS forum at forum.vmssoftware.com. While occasionally VSI employees read and post on comp.os.vms the VSI forum is the best place to interact with VSI about OpenVMS. You are welcome to start topics on the products and issues most important to you in the forum. VSI would also appreciate you sharing your OpenVMS experiences and expertise with the forum to the global OpenVMS community.
>>>
>> What is to stop VSI from censoring or shadow banning someone who
>> raises uncomfortable truths or starts asking awkward questions
>> that VSI would rather not be asked ?
>>
>> A more general problem is that if VSI goes bust in a few years,
>> all the knowledge contributed to the VSI forum is likely to be lost.
>>
>> If that knowledge is in comp.os.vms, it will remain available for
>> anyone to find, even if VSI goes bust and the VSI forum disappears.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>> --
>> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
>> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
> Why do you always predict the demise of VSI?  Here they try to let people know where they will likely see topics more quickly so that they can respond and you make it a negative.  I look at the forum as yet another pathway to solutions and additional knowledge.  Will I rely strictly on that forum, no.  Would anyone else?  I doubt it.
>
> Still overall, I find it a good thing.  I would rather contribute to make it more usable for others and perhaps to make some people aware of VSI on a more frequent basis.  The more use, the more OpenVMS gets into conversations, the more likely it is to remain.
>
> I would rather take a positive viewpoint than to continually focus on possible negatives.  Ever hear of the self-fulfilling proficy?
>

Yeah, I agree.  The negativity is getting boring.  Consider the 
question, would it be better if VSI did not set up the forum, or better 
that they have done so?

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