Wayne wrote:
Because it wasn't news then.
AFAIK I haven't seen anyone else mention it anywhere before October 20th. Or are you talking about the uncertainty you mention later?
It isn't news now,
Nope, agreed.
and the only reason you want it on the front page is to encourage the trolling.
Ah, I see. Yes, that's it!
What trolling though? With the possible exception of one post that could be a bit more, uhm, nuanced with regards to Hare's personal character, people seem to be able to discuss it in a pretty civilised manner IMO. I'm sure the same would go for discussion attached to a news item (even though I linked back to this thread in the news story I submitted, I don't know how others did it). Now we won't find out. No big deal.
The only thing we have is an unconfirmed e-mail, supposedly sent to the webmaster of another web site. This does not constitute a verifiable news item.
I don't see why said webmaster would be faking the e-mail, so even if Hare has not left AInc, then his e-mail claiming the contrary would by itself still be pretty big news... Unless this verification business is a recently instated standard, there would be no news stories at all about AInc stuff since they can't be contacted by mere mortals for verification and lots of the stuff posted on their own website has turned out to be misleading at best.
But never mind, now it's not news. Fuhgetaboutit.
Besides, in real world terms, Garry Hare stepping down matters about as much as an announcement from the coach of the Fryburg Turtles little league baseball team saying he quit. (a nod to the movie "My Blue Heaven")
If this site was dedicated to an audience consisting to a large part of Fryburg Turtles fans, then that would matter to them. What AInc do and do not (and who is or is not running the company) matters to AmigaOS and thus to people interested in AmigaOS, i.e. lots of amiga.org visitors. So far that dependence has sucked IMO, but that's how it is.
