What if nobody is interested and the ebay auction doesn't cough up more than say a couple of thousand?
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Maybe the Mozilla bounty can be put to something useful now =).
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to extort money from anyone here. I'm just stating my case and seeing if there's anyone interested. It would be sad if there's not, as that would indicate to me that I've wasted a whole lot of time trying to support a community that doesn't believe it's worth it, but no one can predict what might happen in the foreseeable future.
My hope is to find someone who's interested in continuing what is, not turning it into something else, but the simple fact is that someone who actually cares about the Amiga would be a better candidate than I to continue supporting the community. I care about the people here, and the friendships, but not the computer (past or future).
My time of caring about computers in general is long gone. I went Mac 3+ years ago and haven't even touched a Windows machine since then (when I can help it).
Between Amiga Inc getting nowhere, and Genesi screwing me over, I've just had enough.
Now, if you want me to take the site and turn it into a social networking site with the Amiga as a sub-culture, I could do that, but again, where's the payoff in all that effort for me? When I put up vBulletin, I was actually revitalized for a while and once again felt like part of things, but... Apparently it's a case of running out of new modules and things to try to keep my mind occupied and interested.
In short, I find myself becoming sorely disinterested in the virtual world of the Web and wanting to get back to the real world that is all around me.
In DIRECT answer to your question, if no one is interested, and a standing "until it sells" auction never meets the reserve, the site WOULD
**** EVENTUALLY **** close down some day.
NOT today, not tomorrow, next week, or next month, but no one can run a single Web site forever and not lose some measure of interest.
Wayne