[Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments View flat View list |
Over at amiga.org, the signature "takemehomegrandma" has published a somewhat satirical post - for your enjoyment, here goes:
I want to apologize that the AmigaOne has still not been released (A1 mobos+OS4). I also want to apologize to our competing companies that we have accused for crimes in public without being able to back those accusations up with either proof or legal action. I also want to apologize for not keeping our promises to you developers who bought our expensive SDK's. I also want to apologize to the users who bought our coupons, ehrm, JOINED OUR CLUB, but has not been given anything of the promised. I also want to apologize for the confusion when our offices suddenly were empty and our phones went dead (but that was a result of hackers, remember). Amiga Inc is truly a global 24 hours a day company and the future looks brighter than ever for our beloved AMIGA. We are pleased to announce a Games Pocket Pack to our friends Micro$ofts Pocket PC. This truly shows what a great commitment our 3000 content developers has to our beloved AMIGA. Wonderful things are about to happen as allways. Thank you, as allways, for your support. Keep the AMIGA spirit, and remember to follow our trademark wherever we go. We are AMIGA. You are AMIGA (if you pay us 50 bucks). We will be back with more exciting announcements during the next weeks. See you then! /Yours McBill
Well, there you go. Merry christmas!
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Posted by Senex (Martin Heine) on 27-Dec-2002 06:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 109 (MarkTime): > To show how far you are from some people's definition of news
I can't understand why Christian is criticized for the great service he offers to us with this website since many years already.
As he said already, this place is neither your favourite prime-time news broadcast on TV nor are here professional journalists presenting polished news-reports and background information. - Do you remember this place's name? "Amiga NETWORK NEWS". IMHO and IIRC this website was intended to collect all the diverse amiga-related items of news and information from Usenet and other places and networks. So that no-one had to screen them all by himself!
And therefore I'm very grateful to Christian. The value of ANN is not the quality of each news-item itself, it's the information that this very same piece of information does exist at all - and where you have to look for it in case you're interested in doing further investigation about that topic.
ANN does not aim at those people who prefer to just consumate ready-made opinions - it's aimed at people who are used to make their own opinions. And who therefore mainly need to know that and where a piece of information is located within this giant digital network.
I don't need help to get an idea about the content, I need help to not miss the respective piece of information itself.
This assistance is provided by ANN.
Therefore: Thank you, Christian, very much!
(Who, by the way, isn't responsible for the amount of news-items related to one company or the other; don't shoot the messenger.) |
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