Whats the point of the infighting?

[runequester]

The infighting about "amiga" stuff is pretty legendary, and its something that is pretty much 25% of the traffic on this site.

My question is.. what is the point of it?


So we have 3 options for "next gen" amiga OS

Amiga OS 4
Morph OS
AROS.

Let's examine these individually.

Morph comes with an install requirement of "buy an old mac someone doesn't want on Craigslist", and has a hefty registration fee to actually use the damn thing for more than an hour.

OS 4 does less and only works on hardware thats on the wrong side of 800 dollars.

AROS is free but barely runs on anything.


I see people spending more time tearing down platform xx or yy than they do actually talking up their own product, all to convince people that their version is marginally better than the others, and that their chosen one is totally a mainstream OS.


I'd be surprised if either has an install base much over a thousand people.


What is it worth, other than internet nerd rage points ?
Why not cooperate and actually try to put something out there that might be remotely of interest to anybody other than the existing user base ?



Is the earth truly round ?

[runequester]

Its probably more OS4 vs Morph. The AROS guys seem to hang out somewhere else. or just try to do their thing.

[runequester]

And this post is in that 25%.
How ironic you start a post questioning the point of the fighting, then proceed to take jabs at MorphOS, OS4, and AROS...

I am aware of the irony. The point is there's nothing to be gained from the red and blue trolls slugging it out as nobody is where they ought to be yet.

[runequester]

I guess because the Atari guys are no enemies any more people have to find another victim.

I imagine there must be some retro atari communities out there still these days
Maybe we can fight those guys