Re: Bela Lubkin, free agent

brian_at_aljex.com
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: 18 Mar 2005 18:12:56 -0800

Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work
for
> The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's
been
> [...]
> It's been fun,
>
> >Bela<

Bela... Wow.
I am going to be utterly redundant and express exactly the same
sentiment as many many others I'm sure, surely 100 feel the same way
for every 1 that says so.

As much as it kills me for SCO to lose you, I am so grateful for what
you've done over the years that I can't help but squelch my own selfish
desire to cry and beg you to stay and instead just wish you the very
best of luck. You've earned it countless times over.

Knowing that someone like you is there if the problem gets weird enough
is an invaluable life line even if it never gets used. In fact I have
used it many times but thanks to your selfless posting of answers to
bizarre problems in venues that get archived in searchable databases, I
don't think I ever had to bother you personally, even via email or ng
post. The answers have always managed to already be out there for me to
find.

Now though, I have to feel those answers will slowly get stale and
there will be no Bela keeping my Legend 6 and beyond boxes out of the
fire.

SCO should have tried harder to keep you. The mere existance of a
person like you with your unique combination of knowledgeability and
accessability is (was) a not insignificant selling point when it comes
to telling new clients the various reasons we run on SCO and not Linux.
Linux has no Bela. There are a lot of really sharp dudes, certainly,
and there are a lot of shops selling Linux support, but there is really
no one to turn to when things are buggy and it Must Get Resolved. All
the Linux developers are free to do what they feel like and don't have
to answer your desperate pleas, and for every right answer to a really
strange problem that might be out there on the net to be googled up,
there are 100 bad answers and how do you know which one is the good
one?

Personally, if you don't remain an avid SCO user, then I hope your next
incarnation is in FreeBSD. If/When I finally jump ship myself, that's
my chosen direction and if you are there it will just cinche the deal.
:) Even if you stayed a SCO user, so many times your quick and
definitive answer was refaced with "I just looked at the code and it's
definitely...". Presumably you won't be able to do that any more.

I started to explain to a co-worker here what just happened and why
it's a big deal to us and I swear I talked for at least 1/2 hour.

Not to make it sound like you are dying or anything but you really will
be missed.

Good Luck
I hope your eventual new employers know exactly what they have and you
don't live in such interesting times. 

--
Brian K. White  --  brian@aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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*(OS/X is nice, really the closest thing to the perfect environment
that should have been started 20 years ago instead of windows, but the
hardware is always both 2 or 3 times as expensive and only 3/4 as fast,
at the Same Time. A horrible bargain.)

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