[Rant] TO THOSE WHO DON'T GET IT | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Jun-2002 15:16 GMT by Luca Diana | 66 comments View flat View list |
It's time to put aside pityful and damaging behavior. The very existance of the community is at stake.
Amiga needs to show now how many active users are out there, and by active I mean people who are willing to invest money in hardware and software. You want to show you're one of them? Get the $50 coupon (and free t-shirt) for an AmigaOne system; you don't care? Don't do anything at all, don't come complaining later when you'll find out that in the real world companies need to show their investors that there is a user base willing to purchase their product. And if you think that even without Amiga Inc. the community is going to survive think again: the numbers are getting smaller by the day, just two or three years ago people were saying there were still 300.000 active users, today we don't even know if there are 50,000 or 10,000 or even less. Without everyone's support the community <b>WILL</b> die. Time to set aside our differences and do one last effort to stay alive. Either you're in or you're out.
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 24-Jun-2002 19:10 GMT | This is it.. I'm out off here (ANN) for some time, can't stand these threads...
Why can't people learn not to complain about every step Amiga, Bplan, eyetech, morhpos, haage & partner, Bernie or others take. I have thought about taking this step for a long time but it makes me very sad that I have to do it, since I have been here since the very start.
A real shame that ANN is worth next to nothing these days... All because of trolls, anonymous idiots, and Morphos (and amiga) _fanatics_ posting pure crap here.
This current thread is a pretty good example where the usual persons show their usual behaivour..
No matter what these companies try to do it has to be shot down by some idiot (Hi Cheesy!).
I am no fan of pre-orders (after the P5 idiots ruined that) and I am not going to pay Amiga the 50$ for a voucher, still I do see the point Amiga makes with this offer.
I will buy the stuff when it's released, if it's released (which I am certain it will be)!
I hope things will get better when stuff is released but im not so sure anymore.
A little group of maybe 10 people has to start big anti-amiga campaigns everytime theres a new exec update or some new info on OS4.
These people don't like the route Amiga has choosen but they forget that it was Amiga that payed lots of money to take over IP, name and everything else that came with that....
You guys didn't do shit yourself to save the Amiga name from Gateway so shut the fuck up and let Amiga decide how they wants to run THEIR COMPANY.
I have my own opinion about the Bplan Vs Amiga fight.
I also must admit that I admire Ralph Schmidt for the initiativ he took back when he started developement of Morphos. Still theres also aspects which I don't like and they weight more, thats why I choose to support the official AmigaOS 4 route. |
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