Fleecy Moss Q&A Week 4

[zee4]

I know this is going to be a 50+ long thread, so I'm getting my word in before it happens! I'll keep it short and sweet:

Good points. I just read the Q/A myself and there's nothing really surprising.

The low-cost AmigaOne? Sounds like what Allen was talking about at that show 2 weeks back.

About PPC in general- ever wonder why you can get a 'x86 Linux box for under $200 U.S.- it's got to do with volumn (ok, and no Win-tax either), if we want to get cheaper AmigaOnes, selling more PPC Linux boxes is a good first step. Seriously, Apple sort of has its nitch, while Linux is a growing market, so latching onto this with a PPC Linux server is a smart move. It's going to benifit all of us- Linux-heads and Amiga nuts alike.

OS5?
Well I think Fleecy was right- it's a fair ways off, we're all still waiting for OS4.

AmigaDE?
Well, I don't he said anything that isn't known to be true by developers or the general community.

Real Audio, etc. ?
I'd like to see a player in OS4 too, but considering money issues, I doubt they are in the position to have Real licence the RealPlayer. On the other hand, maybe we should be backing something like icecast untill that comes about.
Bear in mind that even on GNU/Linux, support for RealAudio is skimpy (an unsupported player) and things like DVD playback are also in legal limbo.

All in all, another worthwhile read, keep posting them Amiga.org!

Zoltan
www.ZEE4.com

[zee4]

This isn't "news", it's free advertising.

I disagree. If a site called "Amiga.org" doesn't cover an interview (and yes, I know the questions are picked, but that's quite common in news now, unfortunately) with CTO of Amiga, well what is news then?

I like amiga.org for the fact that it covers a lot of news.  Heck, I've got limited interest in BeOS, MorphOS or any of the others, but if you don't want to read it, do what I do: skip it.

Zoltan
www.ZEE4.com

[zee4]

If the CTO was doing an out-of-the-blue-moon Q&A session, it would be news. Rather instead, it's a weekly occurance. No longer news, it's instead something akin to a report.

Thank you, Mr. Clinton  

[zee4]

So what? You don't have to censor anything to protect the popularity of your site, the quality of your site speaks for itself.

Good point. Now censor is a bit stong, Wayne's just talking about not calling it news, not banning anything.

What I do agree with is: if you don't like it, don't read it, skip it, read some of the other dozen stories on Amiga.org

Obviously some people have zero faith left in Amiga (Inc.), but I say lets keep this in the news for the entertainment value alone.

Myself, I love this Monday-morning freak-out, it's probably healthy for us nerds to get this worked up over nothing.

If you want to see angry, just wait till OS4 ships.

"but..but...it doesn't come with stickers! Aggggh!"

Zoltan

[zee4]

Err, when *I* look at the news items, ALL of them look like some sort of advertising regardless of how much or how little content they contain.

Right on!

Face it, Fleecy's 10 questions are about as exciting as things get in the land of Amiga these days.

[zee4]

Are you saying that you are feeling betrayed somehow that fleecy is posting his answers to amigaworld.net

So what was the split over anyways?

[zee4]

@amigaguy:

You said it well- a lot of the stuff posted as "news" isn't.

I've gone though through the questions and answers the last 3 weeks- guess what? The answers are reasonable, and I don't think there is much fluff there, unless that's what you're hoping to find.

As far as prepared questions, there must be some picking of questions, otherwise Fleecy would be answering 20 like "Amiga sucks, you suck, why don't you release AAA?" or "Why are you beating up on MorphOS?, BTW: MorphOS rules, you suck!", etc.

Some fokes just have a bigger chip on their sholder

Zoltan

[zee4]

Please don't call it "flames", the new fashion is "Friendly Fire"

Ouch! I know what you mean, I'm starting to think that's the Iraqi's overall strategy.

True fact: in Gulf War I, there where more "friendly fire" deaths than those caused by the enemy. Maybe  we should pull the troops out and leave it to the smart weapons next time

[zee4]

You see I'm one of those guys like many of you, who just didn't wanna see my beloved amiga die. I feared the day when the amiga was truely declared dead. I always wanted the amiga to survive, in some kinda form, be it the OS or the idea itself. I have been hanging in there for several years, and now for the first time in many years i actually belive in the revival of our beloved amiga feeling.

@Hondo_DK:

Nicely put. I've said it before, once there's some new product on the market, I'm thinking people will calm down too. Right now I think a lot of the negative vibe is just lots of anticipation held for check for too long

We need OS4 now- before a few Amiga fans implode

Zoltan