MikeB wrote:
> You *CANNOT* go around purporting that you an
> unbiased journalist with a finger in every pie
I am not a Journalist, never have been
You write articles for publication, this is what we call "journalism". That you are an amateur is plain to see, but it does not make you less of one. As someone writing articles about Amiga and related subjects, YOU ARE A JOURNALIST.
I am a Physical Therapist who also happens to be an AmigaOS fan.
.. evidently to the detriment of your opinion of any potential competitors or supplements to AmigaOS..
> "they stole Amiga intellectual property and at least
> two of their team members are dicks"
Although I haven't said that anywhere
You didn't say it in so many words, no. But we all know you have something against Ralph Schmidt, and myself, and your article on OSNews and *all* of your posts to ANN and MooBunny show a great bias towards AmigaOS 4.x and related projects as compared to MorphOS, including your statements of FACT about legal issues which are as far from fact as cow pats are from chocolate cookies.
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> But you can't go around writing articles as if you're
> unbiased when you hold *grudges* against those
> parties.
There was no grudge when I wrote that article.
Not against Ralph, not against myself? Liar liar, pants on fire..
I was requesting information from certain involved people, but did not get any information with regard to the issue you are so hung up on (access to AmigaOS source code), regardless of several requests.
So you DIDN'T receive that document. In which case what the HELL did you receive that was FUD? It's absolutely incredible evidence of your bias, is this
> Every time you appear online you accuse bPlan,
> Thendic or MorphOS of theft!
Point me to *one* good instance where I did!
I could spend days going through ANN and MooBunny picking out your posts where you present as unshakable fact that MorphOS is based on stolen AmigaOS 3.1 source code. But the biggest one I can point out is this: who needs to search?
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1897""So, no agreement could be reached and the legal status of the OS has been in doubt within the Amiga community ever since (because the development team has had access to AmigaOS source code). ""
Since I mailed you with friendly advice and a possibly better way of phrasing that sentence, you have done nothing but refuse to admit that that line is a VERY VERY stupid thing to say. Recently you added the word "allegedly" but it was not because you believed it. You refused to change the line because, and I quote:
""Neither Thendic nor bPlan are denying it""
This is not good reason not to change it, you two-faced STUBBORN son-of-a-bitch.
It did not have any relevance. Thendic-France wanted to have a biased Journalist to their advantage, nothing more and nothing less.
Thendic France wanted a journalist that wouldn't go around making his day by ####-talking their products and subjecting them to legal difficulties every day.
Everyone else manages to do what they want just fine. Why do you have to be different?
> Do you realise that most of the articles you have
> created contain legitimate cases of libel against
> companies?
Point these articles to me then.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1897That one. I can point to *thousands* of ANN and MooBunny posts where you confirm your silly little opinion and place it out there as the gospel truth. You seem to want to accept that the MorphOS team have disks full of AmigaOS 3.1 source code laying around and are working by simple recompiles of it. This could not be further from the truth, and if you like, you can ask AROS just how much of their work we are using (and then putting back, too.. you would not believe how buggy the AROS components are)
Personally I can point to *thousands* of your postings containing real FUD and misinformation! Hypocrite!
I am not a hypocrite because I do not claim to be unbiased. I go around slagging AmigaOS 4.x and Hyperion off because I have good reason to: they can do no right in my eyes, and by simple reading of their news announcements (and a few newsgroup chats with the Friedens over certain projects) it seems they are doing everything possible to turn AmigaOS 4.x into a crock of ####.
I think MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.x are created equal, but it's the subsequent development that makes the difference - whether either turns into a crock of #### is entirely dependant on the teams working on it, and the methods they use.
I think people need to wake up and smell the incompetance here on the side of AmigaOS 4.x.
You, however, say you are unbiased and want to see both succeed, yet can't wait for a chance to write a negative comment about MorphOS, bPlan, Thendic, it's team members, employees.... by nature, biased.
> Since your days on the Team AMIGA mailing list
BTW, never been on the Team AMIGA mailing list before.
You were on some kind of list, and pasted it to the bottom of your mails quite a lot. It wasn't the AmigaRing crap. I'm certain it was Team AMIGA or something, or maybe you just said you were a "member of the Amiga team, blah blah blind fanboy rant sig". I don't recall.. I'll have to find an old mail you sent.
Change that line to "Ever since the early days" and my point still stands, s-o-b.