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| Comment 1 | Troels Ersking | | 28-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Radfoo | | 28-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Craig Delahoy | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Kresimir Rogic | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 5 | greenboy | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 6 | Christian Kemp | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 7 | SnuggleBunny | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 8 | greenboy | | 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT |
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| ACE 2000 show report : Comment 9 of 22 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Lancelot Du Lac on 29-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (greenboy):
Greenboy,
Please, give it a rest. So QNX wasn't mentioned in the report, boo-hoo, get over it and stop acting like it was Christian's fault and whining to him about it. Go whine to the author of the article that he should have given QNX at least as much attention as Linux and Mac OS X. The report was by no means comprehensive of the Mac or Linux happenings either but you don't see any of them crying foul at the "Comprehensive" blurb.
Fact is, Christian is right, it was a comprehensive report. It was comprehensive to the subject of this web site, you know, AMIGA Network News not, Amiga/QNX/MAC/Linux Network News, but AMIGA Network News. If I were on the QNX.Start web site, and saw a link to a "Comprehensive report" concerning some trade show, I would expect the report to a comprehensive report about the QNX happenings and have very little concerning the other systems there. (Why would a QNX developer want to wade through pages of information concerning other systems if all he wants to know is what's going on with QNX?)
That's why you have Amiga dedicated magazines, Windows dedicated magazines, Linux dedicated magazines, MAC dedicated magazines, need I go on? I don't see much more than a blurb or two once every blue moon in a MAC magazine about AMIGA, do I complain? No. Perhaps one of the QNX supporters out there that was at the ACE2K show needs to write a comprehensive report at the QNX happenings and post it to the QNX.Start web site, then QNX will get a bit more press.
This constant QNX/Amiga One Bickering back and forth is simply disgusting, although accurately predicted the moment Gateway axed the partnership with QNX. (Remember all those cries of "NOOO THIS WILL SPLIT THE AMIGA COMMUNITY!", all this bickering makes me think it may actually have.)
So please, stop whining to the person who said “comprehensive" on his AMIGA dedicated web site instead of “comprehensive Amiga”. If you don't like the fact that the article didn't mention QNX, then maybe you should write the author of the article so he knows, instead of complaining to someone who can't change the article.
One last thing, and I hate to bring this up but I feel I must. I really don’t think it helps your cause any by posting links to this argument over on Moo-Bunny, Greenboy. It makes you look very childish. You act like your defending the rights of interested Amigan’s to read information about QNX, but all you are doing is making more and more Amigan’s sick of QNX. By bickering about what Amigan’s want on an Amiga dedicated web site, you are almost insulting all Amigan’s out there. Each individual Amigan knows what they want, and it isn’t necessarily what you think. By constantly bitching that Amiga dedicated web sites need to carry more QNX news because so many Amigan’s want to learn more about QNX is almost implying that all Amigan’s are to stupid to follow a link to a QNX dedicated web site and then bookmark it. And your posts over at Moo-Bunny saying “Look at me, I’m striking a blow against ignorant Amigan’s and informing them about QNX! Check it out here on A.N.N.” is enough to turn one’s stomach.
It truly disgusts me when someone thinks they must “fight against ignorance” and force information down the throats of people who just might not want to hear it. It’s one thing to give everyone a heads up on a great QNX web site that gives them the information they want to know about QNX, it’s another to force those capable of surfing to the QNX news site, but might not want to, to read the news items anyway. If that’s not bad enough, you than insult anybody who does not share your interests, by saying, “Amigans have in the past prided themselves on their technical acumen, but now it seems as if isolationism and ignorance is valued”. I’m sorry, but I did not realize that my lack of interest in MAC OS makes me ignorant. Let’s go over your interests Greenboy so I can call you ignorant the moment I find something I’m interested in, but you are not.
Last but not least, I want to make the point that this is not a bash against QNX in any way. I think QNX is a great company from what I’ve seen and I even have QNX RTP as one of the three OS’s on my box at home that I am actively learning. What I am strongly opposed to is the implied statement that Amigan’s are somehow incapable of following links and setting bookmarks to the point that they have to read every bit of news that QNX releases on an AMIGA web site is down right insulting. It’s even more insulting when you think of the simple fact that it wasn’t Christian who failed to mention QNX, it was the author of the article. Add even more insult for the fact that some people are expecting the author of an AMIGA dedicated web site to clarify that an article for a computer show that Amiga Inc. was in attendance of, was only comprehensive Amiga information and not comprehensive for everyone else.
Just as I can assume a report to be about QNX on a QNX dedicated web site, I should also be able to assume that a report is about Amiga on an Amiga web site, unless otherwise stated. |
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