Garry Hare No longer at Amiga Inc.

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Mikey_C wrote:
Hardly worth a news item, However, in an Email to the webmaster of Amigaworld, Garry has stated that he left Amiga Inc some months ago.

AInc per se might not be worth pissing on if on fire, but is it hardly worth a news item that the CEO and chairman of the company that's killing AmigaOS has resigned (or been fired, or whatever), that he (not the company) announced this by sending an e-mail months after it happened to a forum webmaster, and that it is more unclear than ever who's in charge of said blocking company?

Is it embarrassing to some, who proclaimed Hare's "new" leadership as promising, wise and benevolent, with all those things "we know but can't mention *wink* [dancingbanana]" right around the corner, that he now is gone, just like that, while nothing whatsoever that's relevant to "the community" has improved compared to before he took over? Does this mean it's now "Fanatically Correct" even for the (former) AInc fans to publicly state that the Q&As, interviews and whatnot actually were a load of implausible crap, solely meant to appease the more gullible believers?

AInc might be a sunken ship on the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but whoever is captain on that ship still rules what will happen with AmigaOS, unfortunately. Is there a new captain? Does he give a crap other than saving some wreckage for his VC masters? Is the new captain insane with regards to AmigaOS, too?

(Nah, all is well! Let's all post more dancing bananas in response to more news items about everchanging vague plans for inexistent underpowered overpriced hardware for a saturated artificial market of religious fanatics instead!)

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The potentially most important Amiga(TM)-influencing event for ages is still not a news item on the front page?

Well, OK, I guess it's not news by now...

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Wayne wrote:
 Because it wasn't news then.

AFAIK I haven't seen anyone else mention it anywhere before October 20th. Or are you talking about the uncertainty you mention later?

It isn't news now,

Nope, agreed.

and the only reason you want it on the front page is to encourage the trolling.

Ah, I see. Yes, that's it!
What trolling though? With the possible exception of one post that could be a bit more, uhm, nuanced with regards to Hare's personal character, people seem to be able to discuss it in a pretty civilised manner IMO. I'm sure the same would go for discussion attached to a news item (even though I linked back to this thread in the news story I submitted, I don't know how others did it). Now we won't find out. No big deal.

The only thing we have is an unconfirmed e-mail, supposedly sent to the webmaster of another web site. This does not constitute a verifiable news item.

I don't see why said webmaster would be faking the e-mail, so even if Hare has not left AInc, then his e-mail claiming the contrary would by itself still be pretty big news... Unless this verification business is a recently instated standard, there would be no news stories at all about AInc stuff since they can't be contacted by mere mortals for verification and lots of the stuff posted on their own website has turned out to be misleading at best.

But never mind, now it's not news. Fuhgetaboutit.

Besides, in real world terms, Garry Hare stepping down matters about as much as an announcement from the coach of the Fryburg Turtles little league baseball team saying he quit. (a nod to the movie "My Blue Heaven")

If this site was dedicated to an audience consisting to a large part of Fryburg Turtles fans, then that would matter to them. What AInc do and do not (and who is or is not running the company) matters to AmigaOS and thus to people interested in AmigaOS, i.e. lots of amiga.org visitors. So far that dependence has sucked IMO, but that's how it is.