AmigaUpdate, Objectivity Lost.

[Targhan]

"However, the Amiga market is quite small and all this pretend Amiga can do is fragment it. We can't understand why any Amiga supporter would want to encourage that. " -- Bradd Webb


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As appeared at the header of AmigaUpdate:

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

We were left wondering about some attendees, however. We simply cannot understand what the MorphOS/Pegasos team was doing there. For that matter, we cannot understand what they are doing at any Amiga show. There are only two things, both bad, that can come out of the Genesi efforts: failure for Genesi or depletion of the Amiga market. If the Amiga community were huge, it could probably support an unauthorized clone system with no problems. That might even lead to additional software, since presumably more units would be sold. However, the Amiga market is quite small and all this pretend Amiga can do is fragment it. We can't understand why any Amiga supporter would want to encourage that. Obviously, there are people who don't agree with us. That's the way of the world, there will always be many opinions about most things. We only hope it works out well for everyone, especially Amiga. We also hope you enjoy this special issue.

Brad Webb,
Editor




T H E A M I G A U P D A T E C O N N E C T I O N

There is one item to add to Joanne's excellent report that has us rather pleased at Amiga Update. Turns out the folks doing the demo of OS 4.0 at AmiWest didn't have a Power PC board available. Fleecy put out a request for someone to loan a board for the show. The person who
stepped forward and provided the Cyberstorm PPC board for the demo just happened to be Justin Webb, the next generation of Amiga users in
our household. The board was shipped out west with plenty time for everyone to make the appropriate installations and have everything set for the show. Once the board has returned and been reinstalled in its original home, no doubt it will be treated with additional respect, being a "showbiz" board now.

We're not sre how it got to be necessary to search for a board for the demonstrations, but we're pleased one of us was able to help out. For the curious, here are some specs on the board used:

50 Mhz 68060
233 Mhx 604e PPC
128 M RAM
UltraWide SCSI onboard
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Who is the doppleganger who has replaced Bradd Webb?

[zee4]

Seems pretty tame to me, not like he's making death threats or anything

Zoltan

[Sphinx_Ra]

Grrrrrr :-x :-x :-x

Well, i read the story,
i don't like Brad Webb,
that's for sure, want to say a lot
of nice things to him like:
You Are a PEEP and a PEEP PEEP and
go PEEP your PEEP :-x
Hmmm....
Hope Amiga.org will exept this :-)

[Hooligan_DCS]

Bad bad bad MOS.
Bad bad bad Genesi.
Bad bad bad Pegasos.

BAD!

BAD BAD!!!

[Targhan]

[System]

The sad ramblings of a bitter old man...

... it makes you want to cry at how low people will go to defend their "faith".

[KennyR]

Even people not on the MOS side would have to admit that Webb's statements are what I'd expect from an average namefollower ann.lu troll.

Its small-minded intolerant idiots like that who are shrinking the Amiga, not companies who are actually producing hardware and software.

Webb, you win my arse of the year award.

[System]

YAY KENNYR!!!!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Well.. I could, but it'd be subject to my potty mouth

[bloodline]

Question from AmigaUpdate:
"What was MophOS doing at Amiwest?"

My answer:
"Um... showing an Amiga Compatible product?"

[redrumloa]

We simply
cannot understand what the MorphOS/Pegasos team was doing there. For
that matter, we cannot understand what they are doing at any Amiga
show.

We? Who is we? I think he means himself. I don't see him complaining about the globe guy who was there.



I mean what is more "Amiga related" the globe guy or the Pegasos platform? What about Joe Torre and his Mojo Meter? That's not Amiga related right?

rriiiiiggghhtt. Funny, from my perspective there were no camps at the show, only people. Everyone seemed to be interested in everything shown.

[pixie]

@ Targhan:
-Edit by redrumloa- all you MOS do is moan... humans deserve to have their own opinions, after all they are only that... human, not everyone share your view about MOS, and that don't make him less objective, or his work less noble, only show what's his way of thinking, knowing that lead with it.

 He doesn't have any obligation to flater MOS at any chance, I don't understand why  you can't grasp that other may  think diferent...

[bloodline]

-edit by redrumloa- all you MOS do is moan... humans deserve to have their own opinions, after all they are only that... human, not everyone share your view about MOS, and that don't make him less objective, or his work less noble, only show what's his way of thinking, knowing that lead with it.

And what do you think my opinion on MOS is?

[pixie]

You are smarter then that, that isn't the main question, or at any relevance to what he has said, that is only side notes, that you pick because they are easier to...

[redrumloa]

I don't understand why you can't grasp that other may think diferent...

I don't understand why you can't grasp that someone else may have a different opinion from you? :-?

[bloodline]

You are smarter then that, that isn't the main question, or at any relevance to what he has said, that is only side notes, that you pick because they are easier to...

Well, I can't see what's wrong with my opinion...