Professionally published homebrew games.

[EDanaII]

Much as I love Cammy for her Don-Quixote-like quest to help Amiga, it's self-interested people that made the Amiga what it was.

Jay Miner did want to create one of the best personal computers of it's time, but he didn't do it for the "community." He did it because -->he<-- wanted to do it and because he would earn money by doing so. The reason he did it by no means lessens his contribution to the rest of us.

Same goes for the inventor of the vaccine, the airplane, the car, etc...

Hell, but for Amigakit, I wouldn't have a replacement floppy for my A1200. Not to mention other items I've acquired over the years.

Did they hijack the thread? I suppose... Is this really worth all the hoopla it's generating? Not really.

Cammy? Keep fighting the good fight, but I don't think there's a reason why you can't do what you do and they can't do what they do. We can share this planet.

[EDanaII]

@ commodorejohn:

The problem isn't with Amigakit making profit, it's with Amigakit making everything about Amigakit. By all accounts they're a well-run business that supports an underserved community, which is great - however, that does not give them license to ignore basic forum etiquette (and doing so is bad PR, which they ought to understand.) Besides, if the OP was anything like Cammy's identically-titled thread over on Amibay, it didn't even mention anything about an app store, just discussed the recent increase in commercial publication of retro-homebrew titles and mused on possibilities to promote this kind of thing in the Amiga community. So it's not hard to see that as an obvious threadjack.

Except that Cammy made it about "profiteering" and "filling pockets." I'm not saying you're wrong, however, as I think what you say is true too, but... by calling them out and then "storming out of the room" didn't Cammy achieve the exactly that? Literally hand the hijack over to them? Here we are talking about Amigakit instead of Cammy's original intent. A little counter-productive, me thinks... probably would have been better just to ignore them and let the thread continue as it would have.