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| Posted on 04-Jun-2003 08:47 GMT by Ben | 70 comments
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As reported at amiga.org:
http://www.murphyauctions.net/amiga.html
Seems to be a list of useful but dated PCs, printers and furniture with a few PDAs thrown in.
I guess they will be most upset by the loss of the foosball table.
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| Posted by gz on 06-Jun-2003 00:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 58 (samface):
>>Bad treatment? What did they do to you? What is bad treatment?
For arguments sake I'll try to eaxplain to you what is my perception of BAD treatment.
The first PROMISE AI made to the public 3 years ago was that they would not announce anything unless it had come to fruitition and rocking on schedule. (Ie. No hyping of vaporware and no BS.) Yet they only remembered to honor that guideline to the point of releasing the sdk after which they have constantly broken their promise.
I understand it's up to a company or individual to make promises and or not keep them, but it does tell something about your integrity if you constantly do break your promises. If you simply can't keep them, don't promise anything. That's a fairly easy solution.
The fact that AI kept promising to community about how os4 would ship within weeks and selling partypack coupons for the product, while knowing the deadlines they kept giving were ludicrous considering the work that had barely been started for os4, constitutes for lying your ass off in my book.
Not being able to keep a promise because something unexpected happens is another thing than KNOWING exactly where you stand but still claiming people otherwise and worse yet, selling coupons which you know cannot be used in the given time or even in the foreseeable future.
What made matters worse was the leaked rumors that told about the "real" state of os4 project, and when confronted by customers that were eager to consider buying a coupon if the rumors were to be false, AI happily claimed them to be untrue and urged people to invest on a partypack because os4 was going to launch "REAL SOONtm"
Another word AI swallowed was with the sdk when they solemnly oathed that when you would buy the sdk you wouldn't have to sign an nda to get updates and that an update to sdk would be released for those who haven't done so. This has lured people who are not interested in a serious software development to buy the sdk believing they would be able to continue the hobby forward with the promised upcoming updates.
Then there's the resent coupon thing with the t-shirts (scarily reminiscent to partypack) Which in the light of the now ongoing auction perhaps seems slightly more clear, what the real reasons for the delays might be or might not be. The point is that here too AI wen't off to telling stuff as we are going strong and on schedule and that our phones are down because of hackers etc. When it now more likely seems they were locked out of their own offices for unpaid rent.
However I won't go too much into that subject as there's no way knowing what motives and reasons truely are behind that story. But in the light of the past it does give a hint to you in a same way as breaking promises constantly.
This post is getting really long and I've only just scrached the surface of what I find as bad treatment to this community, but I'm going to end my nagging with this final observation; AI have also numerously treated us badly imho, during situations where there have been serious allegations and rumors clearly damaging the community because there has been absolutely zero input from AI's behalf. No info, no support, no nothing. Just silence.
When asked upon answers/confirmations from the top about delicate subjects/accusations via email, the company has chosen to be rock silent leaving you without support surrounded by wild imagination and silence.
That's my perception of the opposite of good treatment.
Anyway as I know your trackrecord on ann and you know mine, I won't go further with you in this subject because I know it will lead us nowhere and you will just try everything in your power to make me see things in your way. However as I'm a totally different person, with different thinking we cannot (unfortunately) share our views. This does not mean I find everything you say to be untrue, unrealistic or whatever. You do raise points in your postings but as far as I can rationalize them, I cannot agree with them enough on the matter of AI. |
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