[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 Janne Sirén on 25-Jun-2002 22:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 43 (Adam Kowalczyk): >The intention of my response was to identify Amigans as people that use
>Amiga licensed hardware and/or software.
So, just to clarify... In your opinion, a person that has never used a Commodore or ESCOM made Amiga, or AmigaOS, but one that has, say, bought the Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack for PocketPC, is a real Amigan?
A person who has used Classic Amiga all his life and sells it in favour of a MorphOS solution that he will use to code more software using an AmigaOS compatible API (software that might well work on a Classic Amiga as well, but this person finds MorphOS more appealing), is less of an Amigan than the former - or actually, no longer an Amigan at all?
Is this a correct interpretation of your opinion? |
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