Open Amiga - Defining the Standards

[gary_c]

There's only a short thread about openamiga at amigaworld.net. There's a little support, but mostly it's "why go for lowest common denominator when we can get the full AOS4"? And "Amiga, Inc. is in charge; let them do the standard-setting." That sort of thing. I guess they feel the AmigaOne will be successful enough on its own to drive the market, set the standards, attract the developers and the buyers, and there's no need for market-maximizing things like openamiga.

I won't comment on how realistic that may or may not be, but let's just say it's consistent with the general rallying behind Amiga, Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech and disdain for competitors that you would expect. But again, it's a very small sampling so I don't want to make unwarranted generalizations about that website.  ;-)

-- gary_c

[gary_c]

amimonkey wrote:

@mdma
You asked if somebody could "Ask Fleecy"... doesn't mean that gary_C has an excuse to go off on one and generalise about the people who frequent amigaworld.net.

Well, mdma was also interested in the general reaction at amigaworld.net and since I had already posted there in a short thread about openamiga, I decided to write up a little summary of the opinions in that thread.

I don't think my generalization was wrong actually, and as a qualifier I pointed out that it was based on a small sample, but it was wrong to express the opinion in this thread if it gets people off-topic and upset. Sorry about that.

-- gary_c