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Offline Iggy

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #44 on: June 13, 2014, 04:26:26 AM »
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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #45 on: June 13, 2014, 05:23:40 AM »
Trevor and Matt, congrats on the purchase, good times ahead :)
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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #46 on: June 13, 2014, 07:39:21 AM »
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x1000 is a big huge monstrous dud. 3k? Ppc is dead. os4 is a bad joke by now.

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os4, hyperion, sam boards and x1000?
Worst option forward. Just one guys opinions.

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If this site becomes a cheerleader camp for os4/sam/x1000 I'm out.

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #47 on: June 13, 2014, 07:53:16 AM »
@Rudei

Welcome back :) Good to see people returning again to Amiga.org!

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #48 on: June 13, 2014, 12:51:50 PM »
@Persia

You took the words right out of my mouth. :-)

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #49 on: June 13, 2014, 03:45:54 PM »
Congratulations!

Perhaps there will be a few more threads that I want to get involved in.
 

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #50 on: June 13, 2014, 05:49:08 PM »
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Can't help, but don't feel too comfortable with this take over. I know (well, guess to be precise) Trevor has good intentions, but there are issues on this board where interests collide. I mean if some guy asks what system to get and I suggest a Mac mini or some other an el cheapo x86 for AROS this is in direct conflict with Trevor's or Amikit's business. And they own the site now.

IMHO a site like A.org shouldn't be backed up by a company that actually _has_ a particular agenda. It loses independence - even if this loss may be unintended, but nevertheless it does.


Let's wait and see if any "censorship" of discussion occurs based on corporate interests before we worry too much about it. I for one think that the new owners fully understand that in order to have a vibrant Amiga Community they need to allow open discussion of people's opinions of what works best for their classic and modern Amiga experience.

I for one would still love to see some magic happen with new products that continue to make the platform more viable in the modern marketplace but I also love and follow the nostalgia retro computing part of the Amiga market.

I think our new owners are in a position to understand this and not take a heavy hand with moderation when people might say something like you describe. Let's give them a chance.

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #51 on: June 13, 2014, 06:42:59 PM »
Wait and see? Go look at the major editing of my post just now?

Apparently, you can no longer have any opinion that is not shared by the people selling os4 or the x1000.


Why was my post even edited? This is ridiculous. Can't say you don't like os4 or ppc now already?  Now this site just took a major turn for the worse...

The censorship begins already?
 

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #52 on: June 13, 2014, 06:53:48 PM »
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Wait and see? Go look at the major editing of my post just now?

Apparently, you can no longer have any opinion that is not shared by the people selling os4 or the x1000.


Why was my post even edited? This is ridiculous. Can't say you don't like os4 or ppc now already?  Now this site just took a major turn for the worse...

The censorship begins already?

Who in God's name is mikeymike? I've been here since the beginning and not seen him before.

Is he a new moderator?
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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #53 on: June 13, 2014, 06:56:53 PM »
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Who in God's name is mikeymike? I've been here since the beginning and not seen him before.

Is he a new moderator?

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #54 on: June 13, 2014, 06:59:48 PM »
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@Trev

Welcome back: its good to see you here.

I hope we can encourage many other members to return to Amiga.org.


Thanks, Matthew. Bill did a fine job keeping Amiga.org humming; I just haven't turned on an Amiga in years. As a Trevor myself, I get to live vicariously through that other Trevor's community involvement. ;-) And as a Californian, I can get behind his use of "stoked."

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #55 on: June 13, 2014, 07:10:24 PM »
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Who in God's name is mikeymike? I've been here since the beginning and not seen him before.

Is he a new moderator?

3k posts and this is the first time you've seen me?  New moderator, no.  I just haven't been around for a while and responded to a reported post.
 

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #56 on: June 13, 2014, 07:12:49 PM »
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Who in God's name is mikeymike? I've been here since the beginning and not seen him before.

Is he a new moderator?


He's been here forever. :P
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Offline amigakitTopic starter

Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #57 on: June 13, 2014, 07:24:45 PM »
@haywirepc

We want a great forum where you can tell everyone how much you enjoy using your AROS / MorphOS / AmigaOS / Classic system.

However, we do not want a forum where you make comments off-topic designed to simply insight a reaction from other users who have made different choices to you.  Your comments in post # 47 were not constructive and off-topic.   The moderators have a job to do here to raise the standards of this forum, lets make their task easier and have quality discussions regarding all "Amiga" flavours and not firing off comments simply to denigrate other user's choices of OS or hardware.
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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #58 on: June 13, 2014, 07:32:17 PM »
@thread

i'd just like to gently remind members of our 'cardinal rules' around here, one of which being:

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Re: A-EON Technology Acquires Amiga.org
« Reply #59 from previous page: June 13, 2014, 08:11:36 PM »
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