Team AMIGA vote against lending name

[bhoggett]

As posted by Skal Loret on the TAML:

--begin vote results announcement--

In a surprising show of common accuracy between the three vote keepers, I can now announce that the vote regarding the transfer of the name "Team AMIGA" DID NOT pass. In fact, it did not even come close to the supermajority necessary for passage.

The vote was 28-18 against.

Thanks to all that participated, and thanks for voting your conscience.

--end of vote results--

In effect this means Amiga Inc will have find another winner to replace the [color=CC0000]I Am Amiga[/color] name for the club.

Source: teamamiga@owlnet.net (Team AMIGA mailing list)

[bhoggett]

Judging from what Gary Peake said on the mailing list before the result was known Amiga Inc will respect the wishes of the members of Team AMIGA.  It would actually be disastrous PR at this time for them to go back on that pledge, and I don't think they've got the stomach for that sort of confrontation.

[bhoggett]

@seer

Asha is still contributing to the Team AMIGA mailing list, which is where all the activity seems to be these days.

[bhoggett]

How does one join this Team Amiga?

Have you tried here?

[bhoggett]

I can't help wondering what's with so much criticism over the decision, both here and on ANN?  I mean, why does the "community" feel Team AMIGA owe them something?

Surely the people who have been using that name for years now have more right to it than a bunch of people who until last week couldn't give a toss? What exactly gives anyone the right to call them "anti-community"?

Come on people, act like adults. They had a decision to make, they put it to the vote and got a result. It might have gone the other way but it didn't, so why can't everyone just accept it and move on?
 :-?

[bhoggett]

Sorry Argo, the info on the page is still wrong (I remember having the same problem). You need to send the request to owlnet.net, not thule.no.

(A bit of playing around sending requests to the majordomo lists would show you that, but the info should be fixed anyway.)

[bhoggett]

Can't speak for ANN, or anyone else. I personally was peeved by Wayne's comment, and was replying only to that. Wayne came across as "yeah stick it to Amiga Inc"

I don't think that's what Wayne meant. I read it as saying that he respected their fortidude and integrity in making their own decision and not being swayed by outside pressure to conform. I have to say I agree.

That doesn't change my impression that it is a peculiar thing to do, to deny permission to an apparently larger Amiga community, who apparently were ignorant of the real Team AMIGA, and liked the name from a logo design.

Look it doesn't matter if there were only two people in Team AMIGA, they still have more right to the name than the rest of the "community" who've only just decided they'd like to have something that doesn't belong to them. Nothing strange about that at all, except that the name should never have been entered as a candidate in the first place.

They don't owe the community an explanation, but neither did the community owe them the flattery of asking them for the name, eh?

ROTFL!

Flattery??

Isn't the "community" getting a little carried away with its sense of self-importance here?  I don't see why a team whose name has been entered without their consent should feel flattered when they are asked to give it up as a consequence.