[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 58 of 66 | ANN.lu |
Posted by DaveW on 26-Jun-2002 09:42 GMT | In reply to Comment 57 (Emeric): If you use the brand name Amiga without permission in countries where they recognise registered trademarks then setting up "Amiga Washing Machine Inc." might be find but referring to yourself as shortname "Amiga" would be dodgy.
Citing silly instances where you could use the word "Amiga" wont help your case. On this discussion thread I think we are all aware of what we mean by the Amiga brand.
If someone called me an Amigan I would think them a bit of a jerk to be honest with you.
If someone calls themselves an Amigan I would also think of them as a bit of a jerk needing a life.
It is not up to the individual or the "community" to decide what is an what isnt an Amiga, in the same way it is not up to the individual or community to decide what is an IBM.
IBM decides what is an IBM.
Amiga decides what is an Amiga.
You might decide that the "experience" you got from using an A1200 is best fulfilled by investing in a non Amiga product ( BeOS, MorphOS ) for you but that does not make BeOS and Amiga product nor does it make MorphOS an Amiga product. |
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