The future of Amiga.org ...?

[the_leander]

My life wouldn't be the same without this site. I will be honest though. As a student I cannot commit large sums of money to buy amiga.org, neither can I commit large amounts of time to run it. As much as I would love to say "put me down for a donation of x, and y hours per week administrating the site", I'm not prepared to do that when there's a good chance I won't be able to honour those commitments. As much as it would pain me to see this site and its community disappear, there's little I can do about it.

What I can offer is my thanks to everyone who has been involved in amiga.org's inception, day-to-day running and maintenance. This has been a great community over the years and I will always be grateful for the help I have received with Amiga-related problems, and even more-so for the friends I have made during my time here.

Finally, if a significant number of people agree to club together to buy the site, such that individual contributions will be relatively small, I will unquestionably consider contributing.

This pretty much covers it for me.

Wayne, from the bottom of my heart, thankyou for keeping this place going. It's been an honour and a privilage.

Namaste.

[the_leander]

I've said my bit in private but I'll say a little more in public.

I understood Wayne's position, my comment in this thread was perhaps poorly worded.

To say this place has no value, intrinsic or otherwise would to fly in the face of the evidence.

Here we are, it's 2009, some 15 years after the death of Commodore. This place isn't just about the Amiga any more, it is a community in it's own right.

If I had the cash I'd gladly give it without a second thought. All I have atm though is time.

And yes, as someone else who has a longterm project on the go, the idea of being told it's worthless is a hidious thought. Shame on those who think otherwise.

[the_leander]

Just to be clear, this thread just made moobunny.  While I have a great amount of respect for 90% of the posters over there,  I don't expect it to be civil or troll-free for too much longer.

Hehe, I was wondering how long it'd take :lol:

Let the games begin! :afro:

[the_leander]

I'm not trying to be helpful.

Clearly.

Perhaps you should do your homework regarding copyright. My postings are owned by me, unless I explicitly transfered ownership to you. Can you point me to the paragraph in the TOS that states that by posting here I automatically transfer my copyrights to you? That's a honest question - I might have missed it.

You're posting in a public forum, therefore a great many copyright protections do not apply.

You can either claim you own my postings, or deny reliability for them. Not both at the same time.

True, but again, this is a public forum, whilst you do have the right to demand your posts be removed the disclaimer is there to protect the site.

Of course he does, I didn't mean to imply anything else. But the purchaser would only pay for domain and infrastructure, as you're not entitled to sell the postings.

But he is entitled to pass them on gratis.

Also, if you are *really* that upset about the possibility of a new owner taking on the site and the posts remaining present, as opposed to just trolling, it could quite easily be arranged that your posts be removed should it come to that.

[the_leander]

Feel free to point out where I spread FUD.

By lobbing copyright issues into this you effectively pulled the pin on a grenade.

Do you have even the slightest notion of how complex an issue you're talking about? By even bringing it up in the manner you did there is an implied threat.

So there's your FUD.

I certainly was not polite, but I did not intend to be - because IMHO asking the community for 10 grand isn't polite either.

A community that has had effectively a free ride for 15 years. Asking for something back for 15 years of hard work is not impolite. Now whether he gets that or not is another question entirely. But that is up to the community or some other interested party. But asking in of itself is not.

You coming in here with a frankly disgusting attitude and yes, spreading FUD however, that's plenty impolite.

But this seems to be one of those he's-not-with-us-so-we're-allowed-to-burn-his-car-and-kill-his-cat moments, I guess I better take a break before people start insulting my mother or questioning the size of my manhood.

Because it's totally cool for you you engage in ad hominem attacks on others.

You got a point, make it. Insulting people, degrading their work and lobbing in legal hand grenades for the fun of it isn't just unhelpful it's downright unproductive.

[the_leander]

Hmm!

[the_leander]

@ Bloodline - congrats!