Posted on 06-Apr-2004 07:24 GMT by Christian Kemp (Edited on 2004-04-06 10:09:44 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 1057 comments View flat View list |
I am currently being threatened by my former employer (they are "compelled [to] take action against [me]") for the way I am running ANN, and how this allegedly violates my employment contract with them ("interfere _in any manner_ with any business relationship between the Company and any of its customers or business partners"). This might entail drastic changes to the relative freedom of speech ANN has always allowed its visitors, or ANN might close down altogether. Updated 10:00 CET.
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Posted by Polyhead on 08-Apr-2004 05:14 GMT | Not seen the light nearly as much as i think both sides are a bunch of fucking croooks. One side has a busted ass useless peice of shit motherboard, with an equally shitty northbridge adn lame firmware, and no plans to fix any of it. Atleast the bplan board has a working northbridge, and they do update the firmware and its openfirmware which im kinda partial too, well since aboot sucks horse cock.
No the problme here is i wouldn't own either peice of hardware now, infact that means there's exactly one peice of ppc hardwrae i would have.. an IBM AS400. Its a pretty fucking sad state of afairs from all of you, with blind advocacy prevelant on both sides of the issue. This all becuase most of you are fucking retards, and care about some stupid "amiga spirit" or some stupid shit more than you do about having workable hardware. MOS die hards.. god only knows what their fucking problem is but i'm still lost. Both operating systems are fucking useless when you get right down too it. I was only ever intrested in the hardware anyway.
Just the fact is this.. First of all.. if what kemp says about the contract is true, then bbrv are scum for having written up such a contract and kemp is a fucking moron for having signed it. Kemp derves to lose his ass for having done such a stupid thing and bbrv deserve to lose their ass for having written such a vile document.
Now what i here is kemp sued to try and get his money. Kind of fair, kind of not.. you try not to kill upstart computer platforms, especially when they may just have a chance... becuase face it folks, the a one is dead in the water. Its price too high, its hardware to broken, and its firmware too useless. AOS4.. its fucking amigaOS.. its more useless and dead than the hardware its suppose to run on. MOS.. just as useless as Amiga OS. Ambient was pretty cool, shame it ran on MOS, tragic even. Low power linux systems that don't need special video cards or scsi cards do have a market however. If your using it as a server pretty much any video card is good enough. There is a linux framebuffer driver for nearly every card made. And hell.. really with its firmware you don't need a video card, you just do it like all real servers are, serial terminal. But now it looks like i have to abandon it becuase i refuse to finacially support if even in part a lawsuit started by the company that will limit the freedom of speech on a public forum. Kemp though.. if your going to clame the freespeech card you gotta allow more freedom on ann.lu, your moderating has been pretty fucking sketchy in the past and you fucking know it. So i don't trust a damn thing you psot either. The ONLY reason i'm urging cation from people is becuase Bill Buck is being unusually quiet on the matter. When noisy people suddenly shutup, its never a good sign.
And for the peopel that are about to get pissed off over what i said about the technology in this comunity, shut the fuck up and take a good hard look at what other platforms are doing, take a real hard really goddamn good look. Becuase thats your competition and your all decades behind still. Quit fucking lying to yourselfs, Quit giving eachother handjobs just becuse they agree with you, quit bending over backwards to make lame developers happy. Truth has to go both ways for it to work. In otherwords you pussys need to learn to take good comments along with bad ones and take them to heart and take them serios. Its something commodore never did, and is one of the mistakes in its landmark "see how badly you can screw up a good thing" case.
Kemp.. cut the shit,, you made some serious alligations. Spill it. Or atleast tell us why you aren't being more forth coming.
Bill Buck, same thing.
I'm kinda pissed off about the thing. I was the up and up about genesi, but if is the way your gonna run the show I can't support the product. Granted i'm in no position to really do any serios advocacy anymore. But I still have all the same connections and could probably drum up several sales out here, but I'm not going to even try if your going to go around shutting down message boards.
And i'm dead serios about apologies too, if Kemp is lying his ass off, well then I'm sorry. Infact if Kemps lying about this in anyway i hope he gets cancer and dies a horrible agonizing death. |
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