AmigaOS 4.0 makes Wired News!

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Interesting that they chose an employee of the main competitor to describe the situation

I wonder if that was really him. Funny, in a way. I just pray this doesn't start the factions warring again :-o

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Kosh wrote:
No, I have no relation to the so-called K.O.S.H.  I've gone by this nickname online for 10 years now and won't let something like that make me change. I'm stubborn  ;-)

I just assumed you were Fleecy :-P

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xeron wrote:
Nahh.. we were talking about Nate Downes, who posts here as Downix.

Nate's a good guy, he was just stating his mind. IMO they probably picked him for the simple fact his vote probably was the only one that didn't say "F***ING CROOKS BASTARD SHEEP SHAGGING BLAH BLAH BLAH".

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Argo wrote:
Well, he's done it now. Looks like all famous people, he's got his own fan club. :-D

Shame that some people do not know the difference between a personal opinion, and a competitor company's smear. Oh well, I knew that would happen.

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@mikeymike

Follow the link to aw.net, some people there are slamming Nate and apparently sending hate mail to Wired for posting his coment.

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Tomas wrote:

Nate Downs (Genesi)

Amazing.... You should be ASHAMED of yourself Genesi!
You people have no gone sinked lower than ever.. sigh

Sigh..

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"wrote reader Nate Downes." <---- this is lame enough..

Lame? Maybe in the readers eye, but Nate is a computer user stating an opinion. He's no CEO of genesi and was not speaking for them. His one vote certainly did not decide the award. To make something like a Wired award, there were an aweful alot of nonGenesi employees voting.

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as Genesi here did...

Genesi did not, an individual did. If you work at McDonald's cleaning the deep fryer, are you not allowed to have an opinion on the whopper in a public forum?

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It is not even fact! AmigaOS4 was never promised for 2003 afaik....

The world outside of the Amiga community doesn't know the internal politics and dates promised. It was promised originally for release in 2001 by Amiga Inc IIRC.

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The CEO of Genesi has been in here slagging this that and the other off before.

And Fleecy/Bill have done the exact same thing, slagging their competitor. My point is Nate is no high level employee, and it's pure coincidence that his feedback was chosen for the article.

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

Again, he wasn't speaking as a Genesi rep but as a user. Why can't he speak as a user? That same argument has used against the moderating crew here at Amiga.org. You work for a site names "Amiga.org", how dare you speak a personal opinion that does not bow only to Amiga Inc?

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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 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.

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I find it hillarious that Wired quotes the main competitor of a product ON the product.

I found it funny too.  Although we both know Wired probably has no clue who Hyperion or Genesi is. They do know the name Amiga though.

And that from "nice" Nate Downs who calls my a sychophant on Slashdot, well knowing I don't read that site.

I have never seen that, but then again I do not read Slashdot myself.

Having said that: Great, we're on the same list as Half Life 2.

It's great publicity, and i really mean that! If you were able to release OS4 soon you could use that publicity to your advantage.

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BTW, i thought OS4 was going to be released for CyberstormPPC users first? I am buying a CSPPC and I wouldn't mind having OS4 run on it. Is the CSPPC version still coming first?