AmigaUpdate, Objectivity Lost.

[KennyR]

Even people not on the MOS side would have to admit that Webb's statements are what I'd expect from an average namefollower ann.lu troll.

Its small-minded intolerant idiots like that who are shrinking the Amiga, not companies who are actually producing hardware and software.

Webb, you win my arse of the year award.

[KennyR]

Of course everyone has the right to an opinion: but with that right comes a responsibility. Webb is trolling, plain and simple, and with his position he should be a bit smarter. Amiga is not a club for sad name-only elitists, and I'm sorry you seem to think it is.

[KennyR]

Why, what makes AmigaOS Amiga? A sticker of approval from a company?

[KennyR]

Objectivity

Being objective; uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices: an objective critic.

Webb, however some might like to think, was not being objective. He was being biased, and perhaps even intentionally offensive to something he doesn't like. Admittedly, posting this as a news item was not exactly objective either: I can guess it was a matter of outrage that someone of responsibility could write something so clearly outrageous. And on that level I can understand it. To make these things known as they are is always a good thing.

It didn't really matter that is was aimed at MOS. But this is a newsletter; can you imagine the outrage if the Genesi website demanded that A1s weren't allowed at AmiWest because they were "Teron CX linux boxes"? Or amithlon or UAE or AROS were demanded to be banned from Amiwest because AInc saying that they are "emulators done by pirates" in Club Amiga? Of course it would cause a storm. And rightly so.

So show a little balance, people. The less inflammatory statements like this we get in the community the better. And can you think of a better way deterring people from publishing them and pulling them apart in forums with real objectivity?

[KennyR]

First of all noone demanded anything, they guy said in the newsletter itself it is his opiinion.

And it is his opinion I am criticising, not his right to it. He seems to think that AmiWest is a place only for his own chosen Amiga solution, just because some company owns a name. That's like someone buying the word "France" and demanding that only people he/she allows to be called French are allowed to go to France!

Then heck why shouldn't they? If Genesi posted that as an opinion why not?It's would be their opinion. Many people have posted worse things and they didn't got deteted.

They should have been deleted. It's a public forum for discussion, not for trolling. As an extreme example, it would someone's opinion to be racist. It wouldn't stay on any good forum, and with good reason, but they would have the right to have this opinion and express it. Just not here.