[Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments View flat View list |
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osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! : Comment 140 of 169 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Samface on 15-Jun-2002 09:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 139 (Alkis Tsapanidis): Yes, they are Amigans themselves and they obviously have good intentions towards the Amiga community regardless if you agree with their policies or not. We should be glad that this is the case as anyone could have just bought the name (like some german PC vendor did with "Commodore", remember?) and used it for whatever marketing scam they like.
Also, *they* didn't make any money from Amiga users buying Amiga products in order to keep it alive as they weren't the owners back then. That means they have no obligations at all to satisfy the demands from the community due to those efforts from the community, but still they do care. Despite the fact that there is no profitability what so ever in the Amiga market as of today they still do whatever they can in order keep the little Amiga market alive. They could've just as well forgotten completely about us and go for the PDA market only but they haven't. Be glad about it and hope for the best, that's about all we can do.
Besides, if the Amiga market was *completely* dead and forgotten when they purchased the name and the assets it would have probably be valued less and cost less. So, thinking about it that way, we actually didn't do them a favor by keeping the market alive. Anyway, *I* am glad there's still a few guys around, the only sad thing beeing when we can't even get along... :-/ |
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