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Offline GadgetMaster

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Re: AmigaUpdate, Objectivity Lost.
« on: August 12, 2003, 12:16:08 AM »
Just someones short sentence describing his stance on the amiga market situation.

My first thought upon reading this story : Reporting about a report  ? Not too interesting. Hardly Newsworthy.

There exist people in this community that are strongly opposed to one camp or the other that is a fact.

Now I would not expect Amiga org to be reporting about such issues. It just does not make a good news item.

As for objectivity why should we lie to ourselves and pretend we are so objective, We are human we have emotions and we tend to favour certain things over others. Should we be heckled for our opinions/preferences?

Just stop and think a moment, would a news item be published if if for instance the webmaster of an Amiga website  just (hypothetically of course) made a comment about why he thought Morph OS was the right way forward.

Would we see a news item titled "Shock Horror Amiga site webmaster loses all credibility because he is not objective and suports a certain "side"

Of course not that would be an absurd news item as it would not truly reflect the persons opinion for one and secondly it would hardly be worth reporting on a premium Amiga site.

I would rather read about progress made in this community , positive things like 'red and blue collaboration sparks new community spirit' etc.

Or things like progress made in hardware or software related to Pegasos / Morph OS or A1 /OS4.

That is what I would consider newsworthy.

Then again who am I to criticise when I am so deprived of objectivity that I write this on a Windows XP machine.

Saying that someone who opposes your view lacks objectivity, is in itself a remark that some would consider nonobjective.

It seems that objectivity is in the eye of the beholder. ;-)
 

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Re: AmigaUpdate, Objectivity Lost.
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2003, 04:51:55 AM »
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Right now we need this little infighting, to get us tough enough to handle Microsoft. It's like inner-team rivalries, or how martial artist dojo's often times have 2 hot-shots that always are butting heads. Only through the interior conflict can either one emerge strong enough to beat Microsoft.


I disagree

If we ever have a chance to survive it will be in the form of a niche market.

Even this is unacheivable if we keep fighting between ourselves.

Cooperation and unity might give us half a chance to survive.

As for beating Microsoft....A very distant dream at this stage i'm afraid.

They just have too much money and the majority of the market. No real changes in sight for some time to come. :-(