Hooligan_DCS wrote:
You are right, the Amiga-market is too small for lots of competition. On the other hand, when has consumer suffered from such competition? Usually it just makes things better. Cheaper products, better service etc.
But as we stand, there is no competition as only the other party has delivereved the goods. In a few months(my estimate, don't kill 
this will change as both companies have their solutions out by then, and can do some real competition.
The same goes for us users, we can start comparing the two computers and operation systems based on daily usage and overall feeling. Not by numbers ran on Linux.
The competition I was mainly refering to is in the community...especially this AINC Morphos thing.People new to the community, and people who return to the community asfter a long time(such as myself) comeback to finding these flame wars, like this one.Another example is the amithlon.I tell you, alot of people who come back see this crap and just leave again, taking with them a very bad impression which spreads to other potentials who might have come back once they were made aware.I know I very nearly turned away until I realized it was the amiga I was about, not hotheads squabbling over who's solution is better.(Its pretty easy to put em in AMD\Intel Mac|windows or ATI\nVidia frames of referances and then can be thus ignored)
In this way "competition can kill"
With 2 platforms for the amiga, two operating systems it makes it less attractive for developers to come to Amiga as a whole as they have to port thier products between the two.Many wont come due to this single fact, which means less support for both.Without up-todate applications, and a steady release of applications the platform dies.Especially when both offerings are in competition with PC and Macs.Competition can kill here too.
On top of all this you have other competitors such as Aros, Amithlon XL and maybe even Ulminator(sp) amongst others, and thier grievances thrown into the mix.
This kind of competition can make the entire environment(with sh*t stirers from the PC mob)very unpleasant, and may even drive long time supporters of Amiga away.
This entire thread turned into a flame war with a few cheap shots taken by wayne.It is unclear or not if this was just in fun, which I would like to believe, or not, its gone too far.His most recent comments make it clear to me that he is a Morphos supporter, and steadfastly so with perhaps some ill feeling towards Ainc and thier offering.As such I certainly could not rely on him to give a fair assesment of both machines, all other considerations aside.
If I cant do this, how can a newcomer do this?
Now, before anyone jumps in, the Amigone is produced by eyetech in an agreement\partnership with AINC. This makes it an AINC offering no matter how much or how little involvement they have in the project.Same with OS4.
As an administrator of a website myself and a supporter of AMIGA (not morphos, not Amiga Inc or any other faction) I have found it very difficult to find a community to direct my visitors to, as I firmly believe if I did it would cause more harm than good due to the flamewars etc.
Anyway, I hope you can see what I am trying to say here.I also hope that many others might see the dangers to the future of AMIGA and start thinking about more benificial ways to support thier faction and the AMIGA community as a whole.
