@zudobug
I think the point that is being made here is that criticism is fine, and Amiga Inc deserve it. But what is going on here is a little more than criticism. In some cases it's plain rude and uncivil.
I've tried to remain at least an angry-civil; I'm not going to lower myself to the level of personal insults like others here. And I won't start throwing wild accusations about like the paypal stuff I know nothing about. What I have (vaguely) cited as AInc's failings is hardly controversial: its common knowledge and only the most shortsighted or stubborn can refuse to acknowledge it. Yet they do. And they do it a lot. And before you know it there is a tide of totally misplaced optimism that always crashes and burns in the worst possible way, and at the end thousands of good people just decide to give up and go to another platform. This happens again and again and again so often it's heartbreaking. It's happened since '94.
The irony is, that when when anyone tries step in to try to remind people about how misplaced their trust is, they get called FUD spreaders and trolls. It's as if its some kind of defensive mechanism that acts in leiu of any reason or common sense. They can't properly defend AInc because they have become indefensible, so they use excuses and counter-accusations instead. There is nothing wrong with criticism as long as it is not just FUD - even if it is old arguments. I reiterate that people who are fed up of hearing about this should just stay out of these threads. Seriously. I think saying that it is boring or stupid to criticise is just one of the forms of defensiveness I outlined above. It's the only way to support AInc and still look semi-credible. And that goes for *YAWN* guy too. If he's so tired he should go to bed.
Most of the people doing this are pegasos owners and genesi supporters. So no surprise some folk may reason there is an agenda behind the crap.
Admittedly this is true. Many of these people picked their side years ago. But many were blonde cheerleaders like myself who just turned sour in the face of yet more broken promises. Many of those kind of people love Amigas for what they are and what they were, and its no real surprise that many went to MOS. MOS is the closest thing to the real Amiga experience you can get in the current day. And Genesi have spent lots of money and time and effort recruiting people - something AInc have never done and never will. Another good thing about the 'Genesi crowd' is that they keep it real - they don't think that their OS will save the Amiga and make it popular again or other such deluded nonsense.
Old arguments are dug up over and over and it's boring. Do you really think everyone would forget about Amiga Inc's wrong doings if you didn't keep reminding us?
I know you won't forget, as most other intelligent people won't. But I can say that some others have either very short memories or they are very forgiving. Or they really are blind to what's going on, intellectually revolting as this may be. It's hard not to comment when you see yet more AInc bull and people swallowing it up like good little zealots or apologising for massive AInc blunders or coverups. My personal bugbear is when people think AInc are beyond any kind of reproach just because they have the name. Most of these people wouldn't care if I insulted Microsoft in the same way - my avatar pees on them and I've had no complaints of being a troll yet for that!
