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Re: The Downward Spiral of Amiga Incorporated
« on: September 24, 2003, 06:52:11 PM »
Yes, very well written.
Everything from title to sentance structure to word choice has been very well sensationalized.
Where facts are not in evidence, vague references have been used such as "multiple" claimants....where is the number? the FACTS!

All those documents post on websites...sure they showed some things, but did anyone take notice of the page numbers? there were sheafs of pages missing!

All these FACTS were posted in a news item some weeks ago, nothing new has been added with this article that was not already available then.This in itself makes this a non news item, that it is an article and not news becomes supurfulous.

The only viable FACT is that nobody outside of Amiga Inc knows the full story, and in my opinion even close to it, and this article, which can easily be taken as having all this information, is in my opinion, misleading.
A very good piece of jounalisim, its actual worth is dubious at best.

BBRV has a personal vendetta against B McEwen, this was clearly shown by his own comments on ANN during the Gary Hare debacle, and hence Genesi has a vendetta against A.Inc as it is really his only avenue to Bill McEwen.

I dont think Genesi are in such great financial straights either considering they have been giving out freebies hand over fist, been subsidizing the cost of thier boards (this is a smart business move if it works) and so on. The statement that was posted here as a news item some weeks ago re-inforces this opinion where he was appealing for support from this community.

Simply put this article is not much more than well written fluff, I dont think Amiga Inc. is the big baddy that it is made out to be (although I understand much of the angst towards them) nor do I think Genesi/BBRV is the knight in shining armour he pretends to be either.

It just keeps me thinking of a line in the movie Gladiator with Brian Denehy (sp)

"When you are strong, prentend you are weak, when you are weak, pretend you are strong"

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Re: The Downward Spiral of Amiga Incorporated
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2003, 02:16:39 AM »
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You're being very selective with your truth, aren't you? Why do you not also mention that the "missing" pages were not included in the deposition to the courts and that even Amiga Inc's counsel obviously didn't think the information contain therein was relevant to their case?


Simply because the website did not make a note of this.The only thing they said was "here is the deposition"
It really does not matter to me, the deposition was incomplete, pages missing many pages unsigned and finally any and/or all of those posted pages could have been altered in any way and we would be none the wiser.
Furthermore, I would find it very odd if Amiga Inc had decided not to include those pages they would have numbered the deposition like they did.

It seems to me when you present something, you only number the presentation in sequence.

It did state in that deposition that they refused to answer some things as it was sensitive information in some way, and that by allowing that information to go public would unduly harm Amiga Inc.

If this is even slightly true, it goes directly back to the vedetta I talked about.

In any case, none of us have the facts of the matter, the article writer does not have all the facts, and hence the article should have reflected this clearly.

For example, the word "may" should have been used, and used often.

on another posting, AMiga Inc may be crooks, they may have scammed everyone  with thier coupon scheme, however there are two sides to every story, the court cases are not finalized, and OS4 is not yet released for them to make good on thier promises.
Until these things happen I believe judgement should be reserved ( I believe the catchcry is innocent until proven guilty). Should we trust them? Definately not!

BTW BBRV has admited they are running at a loss in the appeal for support of some weeks ago, and likely will be for some time.They also offered many things except hard currency for this support.
It is my view that Genesi is not in such a strong position as some would make it out to be.

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Re: The Downward Spiral of Amiga Incorporated
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2003, 10:18:28 AM »
I never said that the pages submitted to the courts were falsified. I ####ume that that is all in order.I am refering strictly to the pages submitted on the website. These pages could have been obtained from anywhere.They could be complete fabrication for all I know as the only way we can verify them is to obtain such records ourselves, and as such are suspect.
If said pages were supplied on the internet from various people, with various loyalties then I would be able to take it on faith they are accurate.

If the missing pages are not required, why were they included in the deposition in the first place? I am fully aware the american legal system is screwy at best, but I have yet to hear a reasonable explanation of this.
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Plus frankly with Amiga Inc racking up debt of over 100K in virtual salaries a month


You have access to thier payrolls do you?

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