The fact this discussion has dragged on so long says a lot about amiga users. Makes me want to switch to risc os.
Users of many other OSes can and do drag stupid discussions on just as long as Amiga users in many different places and ways. Amiga users are just famous for being stubborn and having more patience than most other groups because we have been forced to wait for things much more often than other computer user groups. Not that this topic is really stupid, but does it really matter what anyone calls or names the AmigaOS as long as everyone involved in the discussion understands what is being talked about is the OS that runs Amiga applications on an Amiga computer, or emulator.
Having stated that, I also get frustrated by some of the discussions here and by the stubborn nature of some people that express themselves over the Internet. What angers me most often is when people express their opinions as FACTS and then almost as often they follow their statement with "IIRC", or some statement that they are just repeating something that they read or heard from someone else that may or may not be knowledgeable about the topic that is being debated. In other words, they are not sure about their "facts" or assertions, but they are perfectly ready to disagree with someone that may have better knowledge, or experience with and/or access to the "real facts", based on their possibly faulty memory, or hearsay from another questionable source. Personally I think that the group of members we have here at A.org are better than most other Amiga related sites, but I have noticed that either my patience for other peoples opinions which I think are stupid at the time has decreased, or the frequency of truly stupid or irrelevant remarks has increased over the last couple of years. I am guessing that it is a little of both.
I like to think that, having come to the above realization, I have chosen to express my own opinions less often without better research or facts to backup my claims, or reasons, than I might have done in the past, but I am sure that I can and have still gotten sucked into a few discussions that I should have stayed out of.
With all the other things going on in this World right now, aren't there many other more important things we all could better concentrate our thoughts and energy on besides arguing about the proper name for a 25 year-old OS?
