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So where are the ACK Amigas?
« on: November 29, 2007, 05:04:26 PM »
Looks like someone removed the "Open Letter to Bill McEwen" thread.

So where are the new ACK Amigas that were announced for the summer of 2007?

(I never actually believed they were going to be released).
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Re: So where are the ACK Amigas?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2007, 06:26:46 PM »
How can a company exist that has no products, no income, no credibility, no respect for its potential customers and a negative reputation?

It's just unbelievable.  Makes Enron look like a well-run organization.
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Re: So where are the ACK Amigas?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2007, 07:16:09 PM »
Several announcements had the sub-heading that the low-level board would be released by summer 2007.

I can't understand how Bill McEwen sleeps at night.  I really just don't understand it, knowing that the company is bogus, never delivers, makes hollow statements.  It would drive my conscience nuts to have to do that.  How can he get up and go to work every day, knowing the false front he has to put on.  He has kids, doesn't he?  How does he look them in the eye when they ask about what his company does?

Doesn't he go way back in the community - where at one point he was an Amiga enthusiast?  You'd think any Amiga enthusiast, when given an opportunity to run the company, would at least do *something* for the Classic community.  Heck, even if Amiga, Inc. only made replacement monitors, flicker fixers, or did support work for Classic systems they'd at least be doing *something* and could make a profit (or at least break even) which would be an improvement.

Heck, even if they just burned legal KS3.1 chips by hand and sold them in cardboard boxes with photo-copied manuals they'd be doing more for the Amiga community - and getting more support.
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