If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?

[wawrzon]

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

oh how releaving to hear this reasonable voice here, investing mooney into taking away from people what they really like and trying to impose on them what they dumbly refuse, especially by means of buying internet domains and redirecting links, must sound very effective in a little red book of a dedicated os4 folover. and the part of meeting ben to discuss what to do with the remains is just tops! i think ainc and maybe the whole wall street have just found their master as to how to do real investments.

[wawrzon]

annoy? no, hes priceless, the whole thread reduces with his post to an intelligence test. so bright!

[wawrzon]

what i love the most:

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place...

he really means it spelled like that?? doesnt he? i dont think i need to say what it reminds me of, because he just says it all?

[wawrzon]

If A.org was gone, you'd all survive on an existing or a new forum - it wouldn't be the end of the world folks.

as a matter of fact i could check if my amigans account still works and start to post my rubbish over there for a change. it might serve them well to move the center of interest back to 68k.

If someone with serious cash (I do not agree that 200k would not be enough however, thats just what I would do) came along and wanted to invest in AmigaOS than they'd probably want to reshape the current landscape - is that not fair to say?  I think thats a fair assumption.

Of course the word 'deterimental' means different things to different people.  You wouldn't expect to visit the Apple forums today and find people talking about OS 8 every other post so why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.

certainly the best way to ensure that people are not talking of a software alternative is to prohibit such talk it by force, rather to improve this software beyond the said alternative.