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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« on: February 24, 2003, 10:01:15 AM »
If anyone needed evidence to say Genesi wants to have their cake and eat it, this is it. Their userbase want the right to call themselves Amigans, and yet at the same time partition themselves away from the rest of the community.

Well, they can't. Pick one: become Yet Another Obscure OS With Virtually No Users (TM) or stay in the Amiga circles. It's their choice.
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2003, 01:19:58 PM »
Yeah Spidey, it seems there are some (if not many) who want the two factions to become completely estranged and just ignore and hate each other from a comfortable distance.

I'm still not sure why anyone would want this, except maybe through jealously or hate (no offence to teotwin, but I don't understand his motivation - I politely invite him to explain it to me if he likes). I mean, the Amiga userbase is in the low thousands at an optimistic guess, and many of those probably use emulators anyway and are not interested in OS4 or MOS.

MorphOS will have an absolute maximum of 700 users until September at least, OS4 has zero users right now and probably can't expect much more than MOS when it eventually does get any. Neither side can survive on their own, despite what their companies may say. There's no chance of it. I believe the number of sales of MOS Knights and Merchants or OS4 Sin will quickly teach us all this.

I just think having exclusive websites for either AmigaOS or MorphOS is just exclusionist and elitist and will result in the slow strangling of both sides, not to mention even more prejudice and ignorance in the future. Maybe later, if the factions grow into decent numbers would a split be justified; but I think thats a long way off right now.

A religious person might be able to tell you about the parable of Solomon and the baby...
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2003, 08:06:18 PM »
Loki, true: emulators didn't cause any of the problems we have now. But they also don't fix any.
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2003, 02:48:31 PM »
Thanks for explaining, teotwin. And I'm glad, too, that there's others out there who put the community first before personal ambition, prejudice, greed, or selfishness. You're one of those people.