21 Nov
2000
21 Nov
'00
10:24 a.m.
I have not decided if I will renew or not. DECUS has provided only
a single function for me (free VMS licenses), and it is unclear to
me if they will continue to support (and perhaps even encourage)
legacy VAX and MIPS systems.
It is my understanding the first vote to re-incorporate was
rejected by the membership, but the board did it anyway. I suspect
they formed the new organization, then (as the DECUS board)
transferred everything to the Encompass.
VAXUS anyone?
clint
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Megan wrote:
Has anyone on the list got any response from
DECus lately
(2~3 months)? I tried signing up about 4 weeks ago and got
no response. I would like to do whatever's necessary to join.
I'm totally disgusted with DECUS/Encompass... I think someone pulled
a fast one on the membership. I understand there were two votes
recently. I got my ballot for the first one... I didn't get a second,
so I sent email to the location specified on the encompass web page.
I never received the second ballot, and after the deadline had
occurred, I got mail back indicating it (my email) had gone to
the wrong place (I would have expected the mailto: link would
have been set correctly).
Anyway, at this point I don't care... DECUS is gone. I don't know of
anything to bring it back. I won't be renewing with encompass, it doesn't
meet my needs at all.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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