@ Ray,
Thanks. While not worth taking pictures of, maybe this is the first of many "baby steps" on the way to maturity. Perhaps a bit unfortunately too late with the Mac Mini coming out, but a good gesture nonetheless.
Also unfortunate is the fact that there are those (seen here and elsewhere) who may never shut up, even if you give everyone free AmigaOne systems. Such is life, and it's a hard road that Gary, Bill and crew will have to walk in order to even begin to "break even". Thanks for trying at least.
@ To everyone else,
I'm not excusing anyone here, nor am I taking sides. It took them damned near two years to give out t-shirts. T-shirts for God's sake. All I am saying here is that it should be taken as a sign of good faith that they're even trying.
If t-shirts took two years, BillandFleecyCo had better start pulling miracles out of their butts in rapid fashion, but alas my personal feeling is that the Mac mini will impact any potential market that Amiga Inc (and even Genesi) might have had far more than they can (or should) admit.
Hopefully (and I say this with a grain of salt), the arrival of T-shirts is merely harbinger for the long-awaited AmigaOS 4.x... I just can't seem to get my hopes up any more -- even if it's true -- but we'll see.
In the end, all I'm saying to anyone reading this is that with these shirts (and the recent news regarding Genesi scuttling their involvement with MorphOS) it would seem that we -- as a community -- have an opportunity here to actually help one another rather than the traditional thrashing of swords. A monumental shift as it were. I'm not advocating Amiga Inc, any more than I am advocating the MorphOS team here, I just feel more would come out of working together than continuing to try to sabotage public opinion towards EITHER effort.
Both Amiga Inc and Genesi are guilty of far more ineptitude than could ever be counted, but in my book both companies are pretty much even on every count.
- screwing employees over? check.
- screwing their respective communities over? check.
- being pretty much insolvent? check.
- being run by people whose ethics could be questioned? check.
So, in my book, it's a dead tie. Let's get over ourselves and look at the bigger pictures here.
The recently-orphaned MorphOS team needs our support, and let's give Amiga/KMOS at least SOME credit for sending out shirts. Hell, after two years let's face, they didn't really HAVE to send out shirts. Like someone said, most recipients will probably have long-since forgotten both the Amiga and why they're getting a shirt.
Hopefully some of those who can't remember what the hell the shirt is for will go "oh yeah" and show up here occassionally looking for new news.
Listen... I know this is difficult. I know you guys aren't normally in tune with reason, and I know that most of you will sit and pedantically pick this post apart for your own amusement. But... (in short) for once, let's try to put all this {bleep} behind us -- on both sides -- and see if we can't actually get some good out of it. I for one sorely miss the old Amiga community.
Wayne
