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

[takemehomegrandma]

redrumloa wrote:
Who started the rumor and why? So it is in the Total Amiga's rumor column, but who told the mag? Also on the moobunny people are saying it is being reported on Amigaworld.net like fact. Is that true?The editor of Total Amiga is on the secret Amiga Inc insider mailing list right? Did Amiga inc themselves start this rumor? :-?

If anyone is reporting this is fact, then it has better to be true. Otherwise it would be a clear case of lying the users in their face.

But I can't understand the meaning of starting a rumour like this. Who will gain anything from it, and what will they gain? More subsribers to the mag? Smokescreen from Amiga Inc's problems (but why bother about that at this point)?

It does bring the question up that if it was true, would it even be an improvement? Collas was a good showman, but I remember thinking(at least initially) that BillMc and Fleecy would be an improvement for the classic platform. Now I don't know if honestly any ghost from the past can save the boat from sinking :-?

IMHO, we have seen enough showmen in Amiga Inc. And it will take *a lot* more than a new captain of the ship to prevent it from sinking all the way to the bottom. A huge amount of resources would be a start ...

[takemehomegrandma]

lempkee wrote:
it says in total amiga (Buzz word section)

and i quote:

Buzz word has heard that Amiga are about to get a new CEO but it won't be Garry Hare; Apparently the whole Genesi / garry hare story was a setup designed to produce confusion.

Nobody needs to *produce* confusion when it comes to Amiga Inc. Garry Hare exists (even Fleecy admitted that after a while), he gave out business cards that said he was the CEO of Amiga Inc. We have seen scans of these.

My guess is that Garry Hare was put there by the bigger shareholder (NOT McBill&Fleecy - the one with the money) to clean up the mess/damage control. That is - a temporary CEO with a mission to find a more durable solution.

If he has succeded in that, then it's great. I wonder who it is, if it's true?

the new CEO is a man who will bring many millions of investments dollars back into the company.

quote END.

Great! Then perhaps Amiga Inc and their new investor can start paying off all their debts!  :-P

[takemehomegrandma]

lempkee wrote:
takemehomegrandma: , ermm did u see that i QUOTED ? , sounded like you didnt anyway ...

i just wrote what total amiga issue 15 on page 8 said , to relive some of the tension in here.

Yes, I know you were quoting. My answer was not directed to you in specific, but to "the quote". Sorry for the confusion, and thank you for the interesting quote! :-)

also , garry hare never was ceo, he was just planned to be , i guess thats why jim is in the seat now..

:-o :-o :-o :-o :-o

So this is confirmed now?!??

but then again it might be fud all of this, but i only wrote what i did ..because i saw that in the magazine (AND quoted)

Well, technically not FUD, since it's not directed *against* someone/something. More a like false rumour (perhaps even a deliberate lie) ...
;-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ chris

BTW (off topic), what happened to AmigaOS 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8? And will there be a 4.1 before 4.2? Will there be a 4.2 at all now when the functionality originally planned for that version is allready implemented in 4.0?

:-) ;-)  :-D

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Indoro

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, you too.

While you are at the biblical quotations, how about "turning the other cheek"? And that goes for a lot of others here too ...

@ Some other

Spare the rod ... nobody deserves beeing spanked forever. Let life go on! Forgive and forget!