[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 minator on 06-Sep-2004 14:34 GMT | Wayne made some good points but it's a somewhat dissapointing rant given the usual quality of his posts.
The problems in this community go way back much further than Genesi, they stem from when PowerPCs originally appeared on the Amiga scene where several companies were pushing products - people took sides and the splits began, you need only read the thread following the WarpUP announcement (27th September 1997) to see an example of it. Indeed it probably goes back further still.
As for Amiga inc. they shot themselves in the foot, they didn't need any help there.
Wayne may have got it in the arse from BB - he's not alone in that respect I can assure you - I'm not saying they are blameless but to say the problems are the result of BB alone is just plain silly. BB did than Wolf Dietrich and Steffen Haeuser were doing back in 1997, more aggressively yes, but still much the same - and it's not as if the debate today has ever been one sided.
Trolls will still do thier trolling no matter what, encouraged or not this problem is the result of a small number of idiots on *both* sides, I don't consider one side to be better than the other in this respect.
There's a lot of similaritys with BeOS and the Amiga, when Be went down and multiple solutions started appearing (Zeta, Haiku etc.) *exactly* the same thing started happening. It didn't need anyone to come in and start it.
If Genesi was a different company run by different people I doubt the outcome would have been much different. |
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