[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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TO THOSE WHO DON'T GET IT : Comment 36 of 66 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Adam Kowalczyk on 25-Jun-2002 11:59 GMT | In reply to Comment 33 (CDog): > Are "Amigans" those who use the original HW, X 86 emulators,
Yes, if licensed by Amiga or its predecessors.
> or people supporting or actively working toward new HW/OS - be
> it MOS or AOS?
MOS isn't licensed by Amiga. So in this case you could be part Amigan if running MOS on classic H/W. You move into Ex-Amigan if running MOS on a bPlan board not unlike running Windows on an x86 machine. AOS is licensed by Amiga Inc. so you would be a "Real Amigan".
> What about AROS?
I admire the work done by the AROS team especially since it was started in the dark days of Amiga when it really looked bleak. I guess the question becomes will it ever go commercial?
> Mabey it's only someone that just hopes to see the platform succeed
> commercially, one more time, in whatever form. Can we at least agree on that?
The platform I want to see succeed is the AmigaOne running OS 4.0. I also with Thendic/bPlan good luck with their PPC board and MorphOS, but it's not an Amiga. |
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