@Gary
Thanks, DaveP. Before I read Bill Buck's post at the (then) bottom of this thread, I was ready to dismiss you as another FUD spreader
You have a right to your own opinions. As i said, please dont
bring the flaming here but most people on Amiga.org don't bother
to read ANN any more.
I take objection to the "FUD spreading" bit. A consumer
row was reported on an Amiga based product. If I had wanted
to spread FUD it would have been a News Item saying "Dont
trust GENESI!" but given that this is not my opinion nor
a credible conclusion to come to please go ahead and
ascribe motives to me in order to discredit not only my
reporting of an interesting link but also me in the future. Im
sure with enough followups like this I will become as
discredited as Mr Bouma. Not that I actually care about
what your opinion of me is. I don't claim to be anything
other than a potential user of all Amiga related products.
I won't be able to convince you of my motives so there
is no point in bothering. But pointing out that there is
probably a rational explanation should give you a minor
clue as to what I think of the debate as it was at that
stage ( irrational ).
Given that Bill saw it in context and in perspective ( and
I would guess the spirit in which it was intended ) I am
surprised that you didn't. You see on the one side we have
Genesi the company which looks like a safe bet for new users
and is stable, growing and professional ...
....but on the other side we have the community that surrounds
it which seems to have more than its fair share of nutters ( like Miky060, Eva, Cheesegrate ). Look at this
from the outside, would you recommend Genesi to a friend
if the dialogue between its usebase and the company can
degenerate to this level?? In fact pretty much like the
"The NAME(TM)" community eh?
I don't see this as being particularly damaging to Genesi
I see it as further evidence that the "Amiga community"
( vendors and users ) have no sense of perspective and
members of the community no sense of rational discourse.
just like the guy who spawned the bad-feeling thread at ann.lu by posting "an FYI" about what was happening at the morphos-news.de forum where this all started.
Oh COME ON the guy on ANN said "look what Genesi did
to this guy" and proceeded to editorialise - whereas I just
said look, heres a row breaking out go and make up your
own mind.
You might not see the difference because I guess you are
inclined to vent if anything is posted that might lead to
the shiny image being questioned. If you read the whole thread
through ( which I encouraged ) you will see that no-one
comes out of this with credit.
(You're faux-innocent information service was pretty transparent BTW.)
Whatever Gary. I mean don't let your own bias influence
your interpretations of my motives...
But anyway bringing the sordid thing up here did enable me to find the link to the bbrv post at morphos-news that hopefully will put an end to this sad tale and hopefully mark the beginning of nicer dialog in the future on such topics. Thanks again.
Glad you accept that it was sordid, but brushing sordid
things under the carpet does nobody ANY good.
I advise you not to get so worried about articles like this
appearing because by tackling and reporting them head on the rumour mill
when it has gone through the usual chinese whispers
will NOT be so effective because EVERYONE knows
what the real story is.
But hey, who am I to try to educate people on rumour
management?
(edit - r/jerk/nutters )