| [News] The reason for Amiga.org's outage is revealed.. | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 15-Nov-2002 21:36 GMT by redrumloa (Edited on 2002-11-16 07:21:47 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 59 comments
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Think back to the 90's. What do you remember? Nirvana, gangster rap, Vanilla Ice and...
Amiga Web Directory.
Wow, that sure brings you back right? But what does AWD have to do with Amiga.org's outage?
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| The reason for Amiga.org's outage is revealed.. : Comment 18 of 59 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Bill Hoggett on 16-Nov-2002 12:05 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (Daniel Miller):
> It sounds to me like the amiga.org maintainer got burned by his ISP
> because of his own confrontational attitude. I don't think making
> this CUCUG guy the villain of the month is called for.
Well, Mr Hisel (the CUCUG guy) has been confrontational himself, repeatedly threatening anyone who included the words "Amiga", "Web" and "Directory" on their site with legal action for infringing his trademark, not to mention copyrighting pictures of people and companies without their permission.
The AWD and CUCUG abandoned the Amiga community years ago. They left of their own choice citing that there was no longer any point in supporting the platform. Quite frankly they, including Mr Hisel, can stay gone. They are not needed and have nothing to contribute. It might be understandable if Mr Hisel and his associates would provide proof of their trademark and copyright claims, but they repeatedly refuse to do so. The AWD was a crucial resource to the Amiga community in its time, and Mr Hisel decided to kill it off. It now seems that he has since been seeking to prevent anyone else from providing a similar service unless they pay him for the priviledge. This isn't about confrontation, it's about greed. Sheer unadulterated greed. |
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