Donny,
I agree with you that the current state of affairs is indeed sad, but your comments strike me as if from someone who simply doesn't understand the situation in the Amiga community. (no insult is intended)
I started this site 10 years ago, having run an Amiga-oriented BBS for untold years before that. I've literally run the gamut between seeing the world's largest computer community with a fantastic machine (which beat everything else on the planet) to what we see now as an abandoned platform with little hope.
Since the untimely death of Commodore (really since 1996/97), we've dealt with one company after another who've really bungled their way through thing, either through fraud or incompetence, leaving the community to shrink and causing the remaining few (the real zealots) become more and more cynnical and hostile over protecting what they see as their "holy grail" of computing.
I don't really care which people choose to support, because there currently only exists the choice "between idiots and thieves". Those choices of course being between Amiga Inc and Genesi. I -- for one -- think it's completely stupid and will never understand why people supporting either "side" have drawn such a wide line between themselves and refuse to accept that both platforms are virtually identical.
Unfortunately, since I began operating Amiga.org in 1995, I've seen this community shrink from hundreds of thousands (most of whom weren't online then) to roughly 1,000 or so, almost all of whom are online. We as a community have been ignored, lied to, shafted, and just plain screwed for so many years, the only thing that would save us from this self-destructive cynicism is a real company with real plans, and a real way to get us there. In a very real way, I'm very afraid that we lost that opportunity when Gateway stepped out of the picture.
In the end, Just keep in mind that most of the people you see here suffer from "soap opera dramatitis" where the Amiga is concerned. The loudest of them usually aren't even Amiga users, but just kids who get a rise out of starting trouble.
Wayne Hunt