On Friday, 11/30/2007 at 12:59 EST, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No one said anything like this,until you did just now.  From my
perspective,
> this appears to be a threat against Rob, which is clearly unacceptable.
Stop
> it.  I'm copying the owner of this list so he can look and make his own
> determination on that.

Boys, boys, boys.... now both of you stop this nonsense right now.  Don't
make me stop the car!

If Anton works with Linux on System z and wants help to understand why
that's a Good Thing, then we owe him honest answers without rancor.  We
all want him to succeed, right?  Maybe he's feels, rightly or wrongly,
that zLinux is threatening his z/OS systems and is upset by that prospect.
 I don't know.

I have run into some ex-pat z/OSers who've been thrown into the VM/Linux
arena without any real understanding of why.  All they experience is "take
from z/OS, give to Linux", not recognizing (or even being told about!) the
larger "take from distributed, give to centralized" context.

Anton:  If you come here in good faith to learn what folks here have
learned before you, and you are willing to share your concerns in a
constructive way, then everyone will benefit.  If you just bait the
participants, then you will face a stony silence if you should ever need
real help.  Remember that this listserver is THE place to get information
on the right way to use Linux on the mainframe -- it's not a resource to
be casually discarded.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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