Team AMIGA vote against lending name

[bhoggett]

How does one join this Team Amiga?

Have you tried here?

[hnl_dk]

I have tried several times, but it didn't work :-?

[Dagon]

Sorry for my ignorance.... but what`s that thing "Team Amiga"? Could someone please explain me? :-)

[odin]

Well a few years back on usenet of fidonet, some OS/2 supporters stuck "Team OS/2" in their sig to promote OS/2.

Ofcourse us Amigans couldn't be left behind so Team Amiga was started =).

And what it did? AFAIK absolutely nothing, besides sticking 'Team Amiga' in the members signatures.

Actually I should still be a 'member' of Team AMIGA :-b. Perhaps I should put the phrase back in my sig :-D.

[seer]

I have tried several times, but it didn't work

Send the "subscribe teamamiga" to  majordomo@owlnet.net not to Majordomo@thule.no (Like the other way around then the webpage sais..

[MarkTime]

You do a misservice to Team OS/2, which imho, which has achieved legendary status, and was so feared by Microsoft as MS formed their own countermovement 'Club Win'

And now we see the top 2 choices for this club, Team Amiga and Club Amiga, patterned after that...

Team Amiga, really has no excuse for having less than 50 votes, when Amiga could still form a club with a 1,000 member and all of them had to pay $50 bucks each to join.

I was never part of this club, but its obvious the leadership there wasn't much....Team OS/2 had web sites and conferences and official support from IBM (not any more), they did a lot more than append signatures to their profiles.

[seer]

I was never part of this club, but its obvious the leadership there wasn't much

Team Amiga was never meant to be the same as Team OS/2, Team Amiga was a "joke" to get back at "annoying" OS/2 users who plagued Amiga newsgroups back then.. Rick Lembree started it, made a loose list of people who started using  "Team Amiga" in their sig, and Gary peak "took over" when Rick died..

Team AMIGA was in the spirit of Amiga, a "free grass roots" movement it was called back then, no fees, no "you must do" other then promote the Amiga whenever you can club...

[System]

I, for one, salute the members of Team Amiga for voting that way.

Hmm. The name "Team Amiga" was preferred to other options by more active members of the Amiga community than are, apparently, active members of the current Team Amiga. That doesn't say much, but it says something.

I didn't personally care for the name "Team Amiga", and I think Bill McEwen's new proposal ("Amiga Team") is much better, so I'm pretty pleased with the result.

It just strikes me as peculiarly anti-community that Team Amiga voted the way they did.

[System]

I voted for "Team Amiga", but "Club Amiga" will do just as well for me.  :-D

[seer]

@MikeB

You just won my vote for best Avatar !   ;-)

[bhoggett]

I can't help wondering what's with so much criticism over the decision, both here and on ANN?  I mean, why does the "community" feel Team AMIGA owe them something?

Surely the people who have been using that name for years now have more right to it than a bunch of people who until last week couldn't give a toss? What exactly gives anyone the right to call them "anti-community"?

Come on people, act like adults. They had a decision to make, they put it to the vote and got a result. It might have gone the other way but it didn't, so why can't everyone just accept it and move on?
 :-?

[Kay]

I agree with simplex here: "Amiga Team" is a good suggestion from
AInc's side. Sounds very action-like. Kind of like "Alpha Team". :-)
I think we just traded up.

Kay

[Argo]

yes, and it has always told me that there is no Team Amiga list at Thule....

[System]

I can't help wondering what's with so much criticism over the decision, both here and on ANN?

Can't speak for ANN, or anyone else. I personally was peeved by Wayne's comment, and was replying only to that. Wayne came across as "yeah stick it to Amiga Inc" and implied that Amiga, Inc. would just take the name outright. So, I saw the announcement in that light.

Wayne, if that's not at all what you meant, I'm sorry; that's just how it came across, and continues to come across, each time I read it.

...why does the "community" feel Team AMIGA owe them something?

I don't feel Team AMIGA owes the community anything. I have no idea what they do, but if they want to keep the name for themselves, hey let them. That doesn't change my impression that it is a peculiar thing to do, to deny permission to an apparently larger Amiga community, who apparently were ignorant of the real Team AMIGA, and liked the name from a logo design.

I'm obviously not a member of Team AMIGA, & am not privy to whatever debate there was. All the same, I am curious to know why Team AMIGA voted the way they did. So far, no reasons have been given. They don't owe the community an explanation, but neither did the community owe them the flattery of asking them for the name, eh?

[Argo]

That's so Ficking obvious why don't they just change the page.

[bhoggett]

Sorry Argo, the info on the page is still wrong (I remember having the same problem). You need to send the request to owlnet.net, not thule.no.

(A bit of playing around sending requests to the majordomo lists would show you that, but the info should be fixed anyway.)