I had an account when amiga.org first came up, but drifted away for a few years...completely forgot about what username/password I might have had on the old account...and signed up again...been posting like a lunatic for about six months now...
lots of people lurk, but its still a useful number to see the number of active posters and gauge activity that way, just have to compare it to other active posters in other communities.
I think Be could have survived on the interest they created, if they had been willing to go that route, heck they even could have cashed out by selling to Apple at one point....but they had other goals in mind, they gambled big, they lost. Heck BeIA wasn't actually so obvious of a mistake, they had lots of corporate interest....
but gotta respect them, they played to win.
I think Amiga could sell 10,000 PPC boards, I've said that before, and I still say it. They could do it in the first year, but it would take a big gamble about pricing, about having faith in the product. One they aren't going to make.
I think you see companies that gambled big and won big...and others that gambled and lost.
Then you got others that are going to make a few bucks on a nicely sized fanbase and not gamble anything. I'm talking about eyetech, of course.
