[Forum] Interesting thread on Amiga.org | ANN.lu |
Posted on 06-Sep-2004 14:12 GMT by Anonymous (Edited on 2004-09-06 19:48:28 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 382 comments View flat View list |
Due to censorship by Argo the thread is locked but it is interesting to see a major Anti Amiga Inc webmaster turn in to a Genesi attacker and a certain website defender.
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Posted by Bernie Meyer on 07-Sep-2004 13:57 GMT | In reply to Comment 207 (Sammy Nordström): Sammy, I was just pointing out that for that particular issue, you are unquestioningly believing one side, while at the same time accusing the other side of lying based on those beliefs.For somebody whose credo is "we can't know for sure" whenever "his" side is criticized, that's just a tad rich....Regarding that "fake" Fleecy mail --- having received private mail from Fleecy in the past, rest assured that the style was quite believable. Fleecy is a nutter without a clue, to put it bluntly (and, if the whole AI->Itec->KMOS story is to be believed, not beyond a bit of creative embellishment of truth in his "Ask Fleecy: columns...). And once again, you unquestioningly take the alleged forger's word for true. Has it never made you wonder why Fleecy himself didn't speak up and say "That wasn't me!"? Neither side in this whole mess has done anything to warrant any trust, and there is a heck of a lot of playing-dirty going on, from all sides. Was the mail a fake? Probably. Are we sure it's a fake? No f**king way. Did BB honestly believe it to be genuine? Who knows. Could anyone fault him for believing it to be genuine (considering he certainly had prior writings from Fleecy's hand)? Nope, certainly not.And regarding the "McBill is still CEO" mess --- when was the last time anyone has heard from or seen McBill? How about Fleecy? How about the widely-reported statement, under oath, by McBill in the Bolton Peck case that he was no longer CEO of AI at the time? How does all that fit together in your mind, Sammy? How does it all, somehow, resolve itself in such a way that it's all an evil conspiracy by THEM, the evil blue side and their god, BILL BUCK?How do you reconcile missing T-shirts with your rose-coloured view of the red side? How do you reconcile defaulting on party packs and $50 vouchers (and no, the $50 vouchers were for OS4 *OR* AmigaOne boards)? How do you reconcile 3 years of Ben Hermans AmiWest interviews, each year making delivery date promises, and each year failing to even apologize for last year's broken promise (for the record, this year's promise was "End of August at the latest")? How do you reconcile OS4 being "in its final stages of development" in Nov 2002, having "advanced into its final stages" in March 2003, having an "upcoming release" causing "the last pieces of the project [...] being put together" in July 2003 (as well as "close to release" --- Fleecy), and then was shown running (if that is the correct term) on the AOne for the first time in Septmber 2003? In December 2003, it was "approaching release", in January 2004 "upcoming", in March 2004 expected "later this year", and in September 2004 users still don't have aworking OS by any sensible definition. How do you reconcile Ben Hermans making statements like "we were originally going to go with an Amithlon-like solution. About two months worth of work, but not very satisfying" with the fact that after 34 months, OS4, as available to the consumers, doesn't have a JIT, doesn't have DMA for IDE, doesn't have SCSI drivers and doesn't have a reliably working ethernet driver --- all things which Amithlon had? Please look me in the eye and tell me that you do not think you have been lied to, swindled and taken for a fool by "your side" over and over and over again. (And no, once again, I am not saying that any other side is any better or worse!) |
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