I’m sorry. A great deal of email on my Mac disappeared last summer and recently reappeared. I’ m going back and trying to respond to old emails. I don’t know what happened. I installed the beta version on MacOSX Big Sur last summer and I’m guessing that caused email to disappear and when Apple fixed it the email reappeared.
Perhaps I should include a disclaimer with all my replies. I didn’t know you were only offering this for SUSE. If I’d known I would not have replied. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 4, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: On 10/3/20 8:10 PM, Alan Ackerman wrote: > I think it's rude of you to post a question to a public forum and then tell > me I have no say because I'm retired. It's been over two months, Alan. Have you been holding on to this that whole time? I participate in this mailing list for a variety of reasons. First, I believe in the platform and want to see it succeed. Second, I'm trying to give back to the community for all the help I received when I needed it back in 2000 and later. Third, I like helping people. Fourth, I want to show people that SUSE takes an interest in this platform, more so than any other distribution provider. Fifth, to show that SLES is the superior Linux for Z distribution and that we want to take good care of our customers. I have a fair amount of leeway in how I spend my time on the mailing list. I've never received any criticism from anyone at SUSE for helping Red Hat customers, or those of any other non-SUSE distribution. My management also views that as good for the platform, and so also good for SUSE. When it comes to spending a fair amount of time and company resources developing a tool that may or may not be useful to my customers, I have to be a bit more business minded. So, doing something just because I think it might be a good idea is not something I do very often. I want to hear from our customers about that. And I say it that way because as much as I support the platform in general, over the years I've been watching them, Red Hat has a definite tendency towards the "not invented here" type of thinking. They have surprised me from time to time, but I don't count on that. So when I say your vote in favor didn't really count in my data gathering process, it's not about you, per se. I needed to hear from people currently working that might possibly use the tool because they're familiar with how their installation does things such as automation or reporting, etc. AND, that are actually our customers because I know that whatever I put out there will indeed become available to them, and be supported. > I've been involved with VM for 46 years and I think my opinion has some value. In a general sense, sure, but not necessarily to making a *business* decision for SUSE. > And I could have used your tool when I was working. See above for why I have to discount that. I try, as much as possible, to be honest and *direct* when dealing with people, whether in my personal or professional life. Sometimes the directness may be too direct. My intention is (rarely) ever to be rude to anyone. If the way I worded things came across that way and caused offense (as you say it has done) then I apologize for that. I will try to avoid doing that again in the future. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
