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Posted on 24-Aug-2000 07:07 GMT by Christian Kemp39 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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Jason Compton on Amiga/Red Hat announcement : Comment 37 of 39ANN.lu
Posted by Lancelot Du Lac on 24-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 30 (Jason Compton):
>>I really wish you would have explained yourself better sooner.
>>Then I could have avoided making comments like "What do you have
>> against Amiga" and "get over it".
>Actually, you could have avoided that anyway.
You are correct. I guess I foolishly let my frustration come out on you and your statements when I shouldn't have, and I do apologize. I just annoys me to no end the amount of importance and the resulting arguments displayed simply because Amiga has a press release. I've just become so sick of, "If Amiga says they are partnering with so-and-so how come so-and-so doesn't say they are partnering with Amiga!" When to me, Amiga is simply a new company with an old name trying to bring back to joy in computing that the original Amiga brought when it was first released. If they succeed, great! If they don't, oh well. Either way I still have my Amiga 2000 and will enjoy that until the day I or it dies, whichever comes first.
>>However, my comments still stand about press releases being meaningless
>>anyway
>>and how RedHat isn't going to tell any journalist what they aren't ready to
>>have released publically.
>I read a lot of press releases every day, and yes, many are meaningless, this
>one included.
>But at some point, you have to ask yourself: what's better to base perception
>on: press releases and their factual interpretations,
>or innuendo and insinuations that "BIG!" things are coming?
Neither is better to base perception on. The best thing to base perception on is actual product release. As far as I'm concerned, a press release is simply an amusing tidbit of information used to fill the void between initial product announcement and product release, nothing more.
>Me, I'll go with "press releases and their verified interpretations from >company representatives and executives," because unless you're on the board of >directors, you have little choice.
I'll still go with the facts proven by product release.
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