[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 anonymous on 28-Jun-2002 04:23 GMT | Not true. I can define Amigan easily:
"A person that is trapped in an endless cycle of useless discussion regarding the possible future of a long dead technology, whether transformed to a new technology, ressurected in it's original form, or branded with the name "Amiga", and or the concepts for which that person was originally drawn to the platform."
or,
"A person that lost something of value to them that continually searches to have that void filled by any other person or entity capable of fullfilling it, but, who cannot actually decide what it is that they lost and ultimately cannot define accurately that which they seek to any such entity that may have the resources, time and will to help them, resulting in frustration and the inability to use past technology for nostalgic reasons, nor use new technology deemed to be inadequate, stuck in a stalemate of wanting and needing but in actually obtaining nothing".
It has nothing to do with computers. Just people and a sense of loss. |
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