AmigaOS 4.0 makes Wired News!

[mikeymike]

I do hope that if/when OS4 is released, there'll be an easter egg, with an anti-credits page dedicated to all the people who said it would never happen.

Personally I think OS4 will arrive.  My last estimate was June last year, so I'll change that to June this year :-)

[mikeymike]

Well, he's done it now. Looks like all famous people, he's got his own fan club.

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[mikeymike]

Did i miss something?

You and me both :-)

[mikeymike]

This is a criticism of Amiga Inc, Hyperion, Genesi and Eyetech - You don't see normal companies slugging it out on forums with each other, so what qualifies employees of the above companies to do so?

It's this sort of childishness that "justifies" the idiotic elements of the "Amiga community" to go to the lengths they do.

For a while I quite respected Hyperion for not getting involved at all, but they ended up doing so.  Sad.

I would have thought employers of such companies would prohibit their employees from slagging off competitors on any archived medium.  It's just not professional, and doesn't impress potential customers.

[mikeymike]

Genesi did not, an individual did.

The CEO of Genesi has been here slagging off on various subjects before.

If you work at McDonald's, are you not allowed to have an opinion on the whopper in a public forum?

If McDonalds and Burger King were two small companies, whose reputations could be easily damaged by irresponsible employee comments, I would say no.

I have never even dreamed of publicly slating a competitor of any company that I have ever worked for.

[mikeymike]

And Fleecy/Bill have done the exact same thing, slagging their competitor.

See my first post to this thread.  I criticised all the major players in the Amiga business for doing that.

Again, he wasn't speaking as a Genesi rep but as a user. Why can't he speak as a user?

See what I wrote about your McDonalds example.  If he wants to speak out about a competitor, he should go with some level of anonymity, so his comments can't possibly be associated with the company he works for.

Why do you suppose a lot of companies nowadays have 2KB sigs with legal notices in, along the lines of seperating the company from the employee in case he says anything stupid?

That same argument has used against the moderating crew here at Amiga.org.

Can if you like.  Have you heard me publicly slate Amigaworld.net before?  (I don't think I've slated them in private either, but anyway :-))

You work for a site names "Amiga.org", how dare you speak a personal opinion that does not bow only to Amiga Inc?

I think that's a bit of an apples and oranges example, but the long and short of it is, we're not affiated with Amiga Inc.

[mikeymike]

redrumloa wrote:

Can if you like. Have you heard me publicly slate Amigaworld.net before?

I didn't say you had, but I know moderators and other staff members have posted personal opinions on many occasions, myself included when I was a mod. Quite a few times the offending person was nailed to the cross by the foaming at the mouth masses.

I post my personal opinions here more often than not as well, but I don't see what this has to do with what we're talking about.  The only fair comparison would be "AO and AW.NET", and I certainly haven't indulged, because I don't think it's the right thing to do.

I think that's a bit of an apples and oranges example, but the long and short of it is, we're not affiated with Amiga Inc.

It's comparing green apples to red apples. As far as many are concerned you should not be allowed to have a personal opinion because this is an "Amiga" fan site. I can point to plenty of examples from the recent past.

Adding to your hypothetical situation (because otherwise I don't think the compliant is in the slightest bit valid), say for example if Amiga Inc were providing the resources to host this site, then I wouldn't think it would be the right thing to do to be slating them publicly, unless I had got an agreement from them that anyone involved in the running of the site can express their opinions no matter what, and also to have a notice saying that the people who maintain the website are not affiliated with Amiga Inc.  Though if it were me responsible for such a potential situation, I think I'd decline anyway, because seperation from any potentially conflicting elements should be crystal clear.

[mikeymike]

What's in a name? Technically, of course, you're right.

Overall, he's right too.  Unless of course you feel that it would be a bright idea for any company to try and set themselves up as a custom chip designer for a small niche platform.  I think funding short of half a billion pounds to set up such a venture would almost certainly fail.  Maybe a billion pounds.

So let's not start nitpicking about board designs.

[mikeymike]

I recall, that particular “AmigaOS 4.0” spec is just like a PPC ‘*Amithlon’ with a eye candy add-ons...

Do you have a point to this?  If not, please don't troll.  It's a potentially dodgy hot topic as it is.

[mikeymike]

When you're dead none of this irrelevant, childish bollocks will matter.

Do you know something we don't?

/me toddles off to back-garden nuclear bunker and preps the ADSL connection :-)