Re: [SL] Trend analysis

[Ed W <li...@wi...>]

Dieter Simader wrote:
> I asked a simple question and you hurle insults.
>   

Hmm, you asked: "Why are you still here?" - doesn't seem like a warm 
greeting?

and I wrote back (in part)

"Good luck to you in any case - you have created a very compelling bit 
of software and deserve to profit from it" - this was suppose to be a 
compliment no? 

There are no insults being hurled here and none of the rest of my email 
was meant to cause offence - specifically the bit where I say: "please 
don't be insulted if you mean otherwise" should be a clue?

Your software has served me well for a couple of years now and I tried 
to thank you for that...  I don't see that it's an insult that I am now 
looking for something which fits my needs more closely as my business 
has started to expand?  I even have a small budget to pay to get what I 
need...

> Is it so hard to provide a reasonable answer rather than you getting all 
> uptight about feeling rejected.
>   

I tried hard to give you a reasonable answer.  Whether you intend to or 
not, the reality is that *your* emails appear to me to be hostile.  If 
you don't intend them to be that way then I think you need to try harder 
to make that clear. 

Your email certainly doesn't warm me to the idea that I should risk my 
development capital with SL, but lets be clear: there is no bullshit 
here, I *need* something which suits *my* business processes better than 
SL 2.6 and I need it soon.  It could be SL 2.8, but I don't get a warm 
feeling that I am going to get what I need from the SL community, but 
you are welcome to at least try and extend an olive branch if my 
business is interesting?

"Non hostile" regards from a current user

Ed W


>> Dieter Simader wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Ed W wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> You are still here, why?
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=484435EA.7000309%40wildgooses.com&forum_name=ledger-smb-devel
>>>
>>>       
>> I am on SL 2.6.27 (which I have "outgrown").  I am trying to decide
>> where to go next
>>
>>