Christmas Greetings from Amiga Inc

[dammy]

Poster: Wayne  Posted: 2004/12/27 5:18:57

Invariably, someone will now start whining about "$50 scams". Give it up. We all know the history of {bleep} and things that have gone on, but the immature actions of the online Amiga community (at large) are 10 times more of an embarrassment to the memory of Jay Miner and the Amiga than anything McEwen and crew might have ever done.

We will have to agree to disagree on this on Wayne.  The lies and scams preformed against the community would be, IMO, far worse to Jay Miner's honor then anything the end users have ever said.  If anything, the rabid attacks against Bill and Fleecy would prove what Jay Miner work is indeed created long term support by those who enjoyed Miner's product.

In my opinion, when they release a product, they should reintroduce themselves to the community and make amends for the past. Until then, as I said, silence is the best thing they ever could do.

Really?  Imagine KMOS reintroducing the Amiga Inc staff with Irving Gould and Medhi Ali as the new CEO and President of Amiga Inc.  Would most Amiga Users be horrified to hear that?  Gould brought the Amiga up to million unit sales, and then with Ali, botched it all up. :pissed:  Yet look at Bill and Fleecy, they had done zero for us, except "On Schedule and Rock'ng" plus the $50 coupons while subcontracting out WB 3.9.

IMNSHO, I Much rather have Gould and Ali back in charge of Amiga Inc.  Matter of semi-incompetent vs utter incompetence and dishonesty.

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: Wayne  Posted: 2004/12/27 12:43:14

While I've heard all the opinions and urban legends regarding Gould and Ali, I -- like you -- actually "know" very little of what really happened. It's easy to sit in our computer chairs and come up with theories and conjecture, but neither of us were there.

*We* (the armchair judges) do not *know* what type of pressures (both internal and external) were there in 1994/95 to cause the demise of Commodore, and we don't *know* what went through the mind of either Gould or Ali. Not defending them, just pointing out another potential viewpoint.

IIRC, from the years of listening to former C= employee(s) on TeamONE ML, Gould and Ali saw the tide was going towards PC (and NT4?), which they were right.  Starving the Amiga and jumping into PC quicksand turned out to be a absolute disaster  Piss poor judgement call, but I'm sure they were desperate at the time to keep the financing rolling and felt it was in C='s future to do so.

As a comfychair Monday morning quarterback, I still see they did have some tallent for business and were trying to sell C= products.  Now it's nearly 2005, I long for G&A's management capabilties in running a company controlling the Amiga.  And I never EVER would have thought I'd be saying those words in a million years.  Just goes to show you. :-o

Happy New Year to you and your staff!

Dammy