AmigaOS 4.0 makes Wired News!

[Tomas]

Did i miss something? who promised to release OS4 this year?? I know there was promises last year by ainc, but i have seen none this year...

Who is this Nate anyways?

[mikeymike]

Did i miss something?

You and me both :-)

[redrumloa]

@mikeymike

Follow the link to aw.net, some people there are slamming Nate and apparently sending hate mail to Wired for posting his coment.

[Tomas]

Nate Downs (Genesi)

Amazing.... You should be ASHAMED of yourself Genesi!
You people have no gone sinked lower than ever.. sigh

[itix]

Amazing.... You should be ASHAMED of yourself Genesi!
You people have no gone sinked lower than ever.. sigh

It wasnt Nate Downes deciding awards, was it?

[KennyR]

redrumloa wrote:
Follow the link to aw.net, some people there are slamming Nate and apparently sending hate mail to Wired for posting his coment.

Pathetic, but not really surprising. I'm just glad all the loons got concentrated in one site, after the rest of the Amiga sites refused to be unfair and unbalanced.


"Discipline 2: [Selective Trolling Competition]
React to as many as possible of even the most slightly negative statements about OS4, Amiga Inc or Hyperion with foam-mouthed fury bordering on apoplexy, and call even far more technically knowledgeable people than you 'trolls' when they point out obvious stuff, like "OS4 won't be available this year.""

[redrumloa]

Tomas wrote:

Nate Downs (Genesi)

Amazing.... You should be ASHAMED of yourself Genesi!
You people have no gone sinked lower than ever.. sigh

Sigh..

[Tomas]

It wasnt Nate Downes deciding awards, was it?

what about this then?
9. Amiga OS 4.0 (Amiga)

Perhaps not coincidentally, Amiga also made the same No. 9 slot in last year's Vaporware Awards for failing to ship its long-promised, next-generation Amiga machines. Well, the hardware appeared but the operating system is still missing.

"After four years of promises and slipped schedules (original release date June 2001), this is still vapor in the extreme," wrote reader Nate Downes. "They have resorted to demos of a pre-alpha version running on a Mai reference motherboard, with hopes and dreams of it shipping by the end of the month. They always fail to mention which month."

"wrote reader Nate Downes." <---- this is lame enough..

[KennyR]

Tell me Tomas, how is this worse than Alan Redhouse's comments that the Pegasos was deliberately being underpriced to destroy Eyetech?

Another case of selective memory syndrome?

[mikeymike]

This is a criticism of Amiga Inc, Hyperion, Genesi and Eyetech - You don't see normal companies slugging it out on forums with each other, so what qualifies employees of the above companies to do so?

It's this sort of childishness that "justifies" the idiotic elements of the "Amiga community" to go to the lengths they do.

For a while I quite respected Hyperion for not getting involved at all, but they ended up doing so.  Sad.

I would have thought employers of such companies would prohibit their employees from slagging off competitors on any archived medium.  It's just not professional, and doesn't impress potential customers.

[bloodline]

It's sad when people slate a guy for speaking his mind and telling the truth, as he sees it.

At Peter said, any publicity is GOOD publicity.

[redrumloa]

"wrote reader Nate Downes." <---- this is lame enough..

Lame? Maybe in the readers eye, but Nate is a computer user stating an opinion. He's no CEO of genesi and was not speaking for them. His one vote certainly did not decide the award. To make something like a Wired award, there were an aweful alot of nonGenesi employees voting.

[Tomas]

Tell me Tomas, how is this worse than Alan Redhouse's comments that the Pegasos was deliberately being underpriced to destroy Eyetech?

I never heard about that, but indeed this is wrong too, if this is infact true. I really still doubt that Alan posted this to a public news site, as Genesi here did... This was just another attempt of hurting Amiga..

Lame? Maybe, but Nate is a computer user stating an opinion. He's no CEO of genesi and was not speaking for them. His one vote certainly did not decide the award.

It is not even fact! AmigaOS4 was never promised for 2003 afaik....

[redrumloa]

as Genesi here did...

Genesi did not, an individual did. If you work at McDonald's cleaning the deep fryer, are you not allowed to have an opinion on the whopper in a public forum?

[Kosh]

Ugh... I'm already beginning to regret posting link to the Wired article, but I suppose if I didn't, someone else would have.  It was just my intention to bring up an Amiga mention I noticed someplace else and I hope this doesn't digress into a nasty thread.

[mikeymike]

Genesi did not, an individual did.

The CEO of Genesi has been here slagging off on various subjects before.

If you work at McDonald's, are you not allowed to have an opinion on the whopper in a public forum?

If McDonalds and Burger King were two small companies, whose reputations could be easily damaged by irresponsible employee comments, I would say no.

I have never even dreamed of publicly slating a competitor of any company that I have ever worked for.