[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 3seas on 25-Jun-2002 12:35 GMT | Sorry Luca, but asking people to stop taking a stand for what they believe
is not going to help. It hasn't in the past, won't in the present and unless
everyone becomes drones, it's not going to in the future.
But there is a way, a common ground, to build on and work out from.
How can other help? (let's face it, who ever wants to support Amiga Inc. will,
isn't that an understood given by now?)
Here's a common ground (which has been used by both Amiga and MorphOS and others
as well. Some form other efforts like UAE have contributed too, even MorphOS has
contributed, but don't know about Amiga.)
I have my reservations about AROS in that it is only as certain as whatever it's
current development status is and weither or not it has an OSI compliant License.
Right now it does have such a license and the more who become involved in it
supporting the OSI compliant license, the better.
Anyways here's a thread that many of you might want to consider, for when you
really think about it, it's supportive of all Amiga and Amiga like efforts.
It's a, if not the, common ground:
http://www.flyingmice.com/squid/cgi/moobunnythread.pl/amiga?flat=73947 |
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