sundown wrote:
I joined this forum because I thought it was pro Amiga. I
realize now I was wrong. :-(
It's fairly simple, really. Amiga.org is for the realists, those who understand that the Amiga was a fun little computer in the past, or those who simply like the simple programming model so they can test out ideas before moving them to more complex environments. They resent the situation which is currently gripping the platform (much like that poor vegetating Terry Schiavo): the computer is braindead, alive but severely crippled, and its fate is decided by people who seem to care more about egos and their own selfish gain than the patient, in endless battles and debates which go nowhere. MorphOS is favoured by many around here because they feel it is
here, and not just in slowly progressing beta and locked down to now rapidly aging hardware. Quite often they will voice support for either platform, that the programmers despite gruelling circumstances did a really good job, but keep in the back of their mind that the platform is so far away from other mainstream platforms it is just a hobby project at this time.
Amigaworld.net is for the fanatics, those who believe in a miracle resuscitation of the platform, and hang on tight to every morsel of positive information (someone mentioning the word Amiga, a small video, a little demo, the Frieden brothers speaking) about the Amiga to foster their belief in the second, third, fourth, n-th coming. They consider Amizilla and OpenOffice 2 viable projects which will surely see the light of day---you recognise these people by the posts they sometimes make on the Amizilla mailing list: 'Status report? Status report? Are you done yet? I wanna help despite having very little coding experience!', or by their cheerful, and unbelievably naive optimism that another program has been 'announced' for the platform. Economics are usually not their strong point.
Then there's ann.lu, which is just a cesspit of flames, fanboys, conceited egos and 'mine is bigger than yours'-arguments. Terrific to start rumours on, that you heard from a friend of a friend who has insider information that ... At least, it was that a few years ago, things might have changed though. (As in: administration with a big magnet.)
Then there's a few other forums, dedicated to AROS and MorphOS, for example. But their alignment is obvious from the website itself, so I won't bother to describe those.
Thus endeth the lesson. Chooseth now, for the right forum will bestow life upon thee, while the wrong forum will taketh it away from thee.
