| [Rant] Jason Compton on Amiga/Red Hat announcement | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 24-Aug-2000 07:07 GMT by Christian Kemp | 39 comments
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Jason Compton wrote in comp.sys.amiga.misc: All this is, is an announcement that says that Red Hat will sell Amiga's SDK through their web store. I confirmed with Red Hat's Melissa London (who confirmed it with execs within the company) that this is in no way an announcement of any agreement, alliance, partnership, or joint development agreement. This is, in effect, a press release that says "Our CD is on sale at RedHat.com." Don't let anyone tell you different.
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| Posted by Lancelot Du Lac on 24-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (Jason Compton):
Jason,
Who cares what Red Hat's PR guy told you over the phone. What the PR person tells you and what is realty can very often be two different things. I seem to remember a time when you were working for Viscorp as the PR guy and there were plenty of things they were planning that you "couldn't" tell the Amiga community. Just because you decided to say "I cannot divulge this at this time" as opposed to RedHat's denial doesn't mean there isn't something else going on behind the scenes, or have you been out of business so long to remember that the public "face" as opposed to the internal operations "face" are usually two different entities.
I don't know what you have against Amiga Inc., but you're obviously not happy or you wouldn't waste so much time trying to make something a meaningless as a press release sound bad. I mean, anybody who's been in business knows that you cannot make claims such as the ones made by Amiga Inc. about a partnership without having something (however small that may be) in the works, because if you do, the other company is going to publically deny in a press release and very possibly sue over the release (which RedHat as done neither). I don't know how important you must think you are to actually think RedHat is going to tell you something that they aren't ready to make a press release on themselves, but you might want to get over yourself quick before you make an even bigger fool of yourself than you did with this "press release debunk" that you think was actually worth something. |
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