The Jim Collas rumor, truth or rumor? I say rumor.

[CodeSmith]

With all this talk of a new CEO (and I must say, the way I remember things was Collas being really excited, the project being cancelled and him leaving Gateway immediately afterwards) I was wondering... say that Collas did take over, paid all the bills and shipped all the T-shirts.  Would "the other side" still bash Amiga, Inc anyway (coming up with lots of other stuff to be righteously indignant about)?

[CodeSmith]

The funniest thing about the whole Linux thing is that if we'd gone that route, the Amiga would have had (essentially) MacOS X before the Mac did...

[CodeSmith]

@Thomas:

Without Bill taking over, we would not have AmigaONE and soon a new OS...

Actually, we would have the Pegasos with MorphOS.  IIRC that project got started as a result of the decision to scrap QNX in favour of Linux, some months before McEwen et al bought the rights from Gateway and started Amiga Inc.  This goes some way to explain the animosity of the Genesi/Phoenix group towards the Amiga/Eyetech/Hyperion group.  The former see the latter as upstarts with an unfair advantage ("The Name" ).

[CodeSmith]

Sheesh! thanks for reminding me why I never go to moobunny any more.  It's the verbal equivalent of a shark feeding frenzy in there.  WTF is wrong with those people? (anyone claiming that level of degradation is "freedom" can go to Zimbabwe and sample the "real thing")

[CodeSmith]

@bhoggett:

Sorry, but the signal to hatred ratio is just way too low for me.

When I read stuff like that marriage license debacle I wonder about the people who post such stuff... mean, nasty little people who derive pleasure from dragging others down and kicking them while they're on the floor.  If an earthquake happened during an amiga convention, those would be the people I'd expect to find stealing watches from the injured.  If anyone reading this feels insulted, go ahead and flame me, I don't care for the feelings of vermin.

This is not a pro-anyone rant - I have no doubts that if it were Bill Buck that had stumbled instead of Bill McEwen, he'd be getting the same tender loving care.

I have no idea if moobunny is moderated, if it is I'd really like to know what the "guidelines" are.

[CodeSmith]

@Targhan

I'll spare you looking at the moobunny thread - basically, Bill McEwen's marriage license was among the documents that were auctioned off, and this set off a lively debate on how legal his marriage (apparently his second) is and how exactly he could have been abusing his wife's and children's trust while running Amiga Inc.  I can handle people making fun of how a company gets run, but this blatant penetration of privacy is just revolting.

[CodeSmith]

@Targhan

Don't worry about it - sorry if I sounded like I was angry at you, I'm not.  What pissed me off was the moobunny thread.  I consider most of the bickering and name-calling that goes on in amiga chat sites as immature but harmless, but that particular thread crossed the line.  Maybe it reminded me of something disturbing I saw sometime ago and had forgotten, the case is that it really upset me.