Fleecy Moss Q&A Week 4

[dammy]

Is anyone else getting sick of reading all this free advertising that is being done for that site (that should remain nameless)?  If this is going to be regular posting, it's high time they cough up the money and paid amiga.org's pervailing advertising rates.  

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: redrumloa Date: 2003/4/7 10:35:33

Then again annoying or not, this news item isn't hurting anything. Well, except my brain cells which it is killing at an alarming rate

This isn't "news", it's free advertising.  It would be one thing if there was once a blue moon, but this is blatant advertising of another site.  They are taking advantage of Amiga.org's posting policy.  IMO, if they are going to continue this behavior, they need to be paying Amiga.org for their use of this web site to advertise their own.

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: Wayne Date: 2003/4/7 11:21:41

Then again, having heard substantial rumors lately of bank accounts closed and other interesting oddities, maybe they already have and news simply hasn't reached "Fleecy".

Hrm?  Boss, are you holding out on us?  

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: ne_one Date: 2003/4/7 12:52:09

What's really disappointing is this site is starting to become editorialized in the tradition of all the others. Take a look at the news postings over the last week. How many of these constituted 'news'? How many of them were product advertisements?

Do you understand the term, "abuse" and how it applies?

Whether you agree with the contents of these Q&A sessions or not they do promote dialog. If you don't want to read them or participate ignore them. Those of us that rely on a.org for news don't feel like routing through countless forum posts just because a few people have an axe to grind.

If you want the truth, you have to read it on Amiga.com site.  Just remember, they have said over and over again not to believe anything until it's up on their site.  Or don't you believe them when they say that?

Dammy

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Poster: CodeSmith Date: 2003/4/9 2:31:19

most of these guys just want to see Amiga dead and buried (I actually saw a post the other day, where the person specifically said he wanted to see AmigaOS4 fail - he obviously believed that MOS can only succeed if it has no competition). My guess is that they want Amiga, Inc to go bankrupt so that Genesi can buy the IP dirt-cheap and "become" the Amiga (especially the "name, inc" trolls). Every time Fleecy shows up with his trivial banter, he reminds them that the object of their hatred is still alive, and they don't want to see this staring at them from the front page.

Although I really do not care if OS4 makes it or not (I don't plan to buy any PPC machine), I highly doubt Genesi wants Amiga Inc dead any time soon.  Reason being their law suit against Amiga Inc for contract violation is now set in US Federal Court on 12-1-03.  Hence, it would be best for Genesi to hope Amiga Inc survives long enough to go to court so Genesi can be awarded proper financial remedey.  That would give Genesi some rights when Amiga Inc does (and I'm sure it will) croak.

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: CodeSmith Date: 2003/4/9 16:31:24

Is this the lawsuit where Bill Buck wanted the AmigaDE for hardware they never made?

Go read the complaint.

Yep, sounds like a pointless lawsuit designed to bleed the competition dry. Bill Buck has lots more money than Amiga, Inc (or at least, he believes he does), so he doesn't care that he'll lose the lawsuit. The *real* plan is to drag it out long enough to bankrupt Amiga, so he'll be able to buy the rights to The Name nice and cheap. He'll have lost the battle, but won the war.

I wouldn't call it pointless, there are indeed valid points to this entire proceeding.  We can now laugh at Amiga Inc and it's legal council's attempt to get a summary dismissal since the Judge does see the case having validity and gave it a trial date.

Now sit back and wait for the fun to begin in this case.  This is going to be a very interesting summer...

Dammy

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Poster: CodeSmith Date: 2003/4/10 3:18:59

by 12-1-03 do you mean "12th of January" or "December 1"? if it's the second, I don't understand your comment about summer...

In the US we use Month/Day/Year format so 12-1-03 is read December 1st, 2003.  As for my comment about this summer, it refers to the legal proceedings that will take place prior to the actual trial.   Let the games begin!  ROTFL!

Dammy