amiga divorce

[amigacooke]

Well it used to be a beautiful relationship. Everyone together in an OS love-in. It used to be so good when those naughty PC and Macs were the only targets.   :-)

Now it's all gone wrong. Recrimination, arguments, fights, abuse with no-one admitting they might be wrong.  Trapped in an endless, repeating cycle of conflict, there can only be one solution. An amiga divorce.  :-(

Having drifted apart, without common interests any more, it's time to take the kids Peggy, Miggywon and little Arossy and go our own seperate ways. You know it's for the best .... in the long run.

[amigacooke]

Ok if you want the simple and boring way.

It seems Inevitable that those who choose different solutions will be unable to stay in one community.  The community formally known as 'the amiga community' will naturally split and head off in different directions.

[amigacooke]

Isn't Amigaworld evidence of fragmentation with its clear favoured status to the AmigaOne?

If you're looking for help for each solution, wouldn't you go to a source that can provide specialised help for that solution? Wasn't that was the reason Amiga.org and boards like it started? To provide the sort of specialised help that couldn't be found from general PC sources that concerntrated more and more on IBM compatibles and Macs.

In the IT industry haven't communities almost always formed around solutions, rather than solutions around communities.  

[amigacooke]

T_Bone wrote:

Just ignore the Trolls who tell you that. They are the ones who need to grow up. there's no reason for anyone to leave.

I think you're missing the point. I'm not saying anyone has to leave, just that as new communities form around delivered solutions they probably will.  

It's merely an observation, not a threat.

[amigacooke]

kokigami wrote:

poster "Whoa is us, our community is doomed"
others (prone to arguement, like me) "What, you are an idiot, look at all the good things going on..." Which of course, is the point.

That's too clever for me.

I'm not saying 'Woe is us', I'm  saying new solutions will spawn new communities with their own objectives and support networks, just as the classic Amiga did in its day