Review of AmigaOS 4.1.1 / Interview with Simon Archer

[koaftder]

"I'm not here to make friends, the questions were answered honestly, not to make people happy. 97% of the people in this coomunity can go and catch fire as far as I'm concerned, I know who I'd want holding my extinguisher if push comes to shove." -- Simon Archer

That's the spirit. The first step to success is to show everyone how much of a douche bag you are.

[koaftder]

I can understand where he's coming from though. If you put a huge amount of effort into something, and no matter what you do, elements of the community that it's for rip it to shreds for no good reason, you'd find it hard to remain enthusiastic, nice and polite too. He was right when he said that some people here need to grow up. The constant bitching, moaning and mud slinging is unnecessary and tiring, particularly if you're one of the developers.

Some say that OS4 devs just need to accept that they are targets; but no, they didn't sign up for that. Being a customer (or potential customer) never justifies treating someone like dirt and you shouldn't expect someone to just sit there and take it.

So while his responses may not be pretty, I'm glad that someone was blunt enough to say what others are thinking.

Hans

Nah, he needs to shut up and write code. The only talking that matters is money and that requires getting products to market, not taking a piss on the customer base. The guy is an idiot and if he worked for a real company he'd be fired for that little PR blunder.