@hmetal.
I believe I did reply to this,
hereI felt it was very clear. I do know that when I MOVED the thread to talk about, something about the system screwed up and it's not reachable if you look in your account, but is reachable in the direct forums. I think that and that alone is why someone locked the thread.
Here is the original text from the other thread:
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You are absolutely right, and I need to clear that up, yet again it seems. Please read this very slowly and take a bit to understand it. There is nothing between the lines.
In no way did Amiga Inc themselves put any direct pressure on me in one direction or another. As a matter of fact, I could not even get Amiga Inc, more appropriately Bill McEwen to even respond to direct e-mails after the Luca Diana incident. They completely ignored me and this site. (I sincerely feel that they are listening to the wrong people, but that's just my opinion, and it's a wholly different story).
In reality, on my part -- as well as a few of my staff -- due to the fact that we were using AI's server, there was a lot of perceived pressure, helped by the attitudes of people like Luca Diana and Mike Bouma. Said pressure made us feel as though since we were hosted on AI's server, we could not provide the fair and even coverage that I had tried to do for the last 8 years. Psychologically speaking, I even probably lashed out at Amiga Inc because of the frustration caused by the hosting situation and the perceived pressure.
No one, not even the six advertisers "pressured" me into leaving Amiga Inc's servers. This was a simple business decision that *I* made, in the best interest of the future of Amiga.org to get into a situation where I once again feel it's possible for me (and my staff) to do our "jobs", without pressure one way or another -- which is how it should have been all along.
For the record, I do not hate Amiga Inc, though I do have personal problems with most of their management. I also feel that Amiga Inc is failing miserably at doing the only thing they should be concentrating on, which is to support this community.
Support the community first, the computer should come a close second. Without the community, there is no need for the computer. This is a fact they don't seem to give a rat's ass about, and yes, that does irritate the holy spit out of me.
Anyone who knows me, knows that to me, this community is the ONLY thing about the Amiga that I care about any more, and it didn't have to be that way. If AI had supported the community, I would have been happy as hell. Facts are facts however, and Amiga Inc -- in my eyes -- is simply not concerned whether we are here or not when the new machines come out.
After all, Amiga Inc themselves have nothing to lose if the desktop platform fails, Hyperion and Eyetech do.
