I think his point is simply that if something (in this case MorphOS) doesn't interest you, then you probably should just leave it alone. If YOU go into a thread about a product you have no interest in, then why are you doing it if not to stir up trouble and flames?
Well to which my response is even if you don't want to buy something
you can still have an opinion on something, and if you have an opinion
on something then you have an interest in it. I cannot imagine
that any Amiga owner or potential owner does not have an interest
in MorphOS.
I would also respond that such questions should also be asked
of the "other side" ( hate this side business but for the sake of debate )
and they should ask the question of themselves. I think any
sane individual would realise that in this small marketplace
everyone has an interest in practically everything. It is a mite
hypocritical of Frodon to make such requests and not
expect it of his own side ( been in any Amiga Inc/Hyperion/Eyetech
thread lately on ANN, Amiga.org or Moobunny that did not
contain a whole bunch of anti sentiment from people that
have no real intention of buying the product? ). Once you
start applying it to your own side you realise quite how
unworkable the position is.
On the other hand, product X might be interesting to other site members here, even if not to you, so why should we hide from it or ban it's mention simply because it offends you?
Quite. That would be ridiculous. However I think people have
said similar things to this to point out in response to people like
Frodon that it is fanning the flames somewhat. I saw similar
flame wars result on USENET during the whole laserdisc vs dvd
debate.
To be honest, I might indeed be off-topic here, or maybe after this weekend of all the flaming, I'm just overzealous about putting out smoking cinders. Who knows? Who can really blame me? :-)
No one :-D
My only point here really is that this site should not be limited to discussions about "officially sanctified" solutions, simply because company X has LICENSED (they do not own) some trademarks.
I am simply -- yet overwhelmingly -- frustrated by the continual lack of maturity when it comes to the acceptance and discussion of these certain topics.
Agreed.
However I would be disturbed to see a situation where
Mips_proc, takemehomegrandma, Kronos etc felt that they
were unable to post on a Amiga Inc thread in case it was seen that
they were "fanning the flames" OR visa-versa.
I am hoping to find out what Frodon and others that think as
he do think that this call will achieve for either "side" in the
great debate and how exactly is it supposed to be policed to be
fair for all.
Frankly the answer in my mind is responsible posting
and responsible moderation of sensitive topics - allowing
both sides of the debate to go on and for moderation
decisions to be as open as possible and documented
for the "world" to see so no one can cry foul.
But Im not going to ask outright for that, I'm just going to subtly
hint at it several times until you say yay or nay ;-)
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