I pose this statement and questions to each and every one of us.
AMIGA was about ideas, innovation, thinking outside the square, participation, listening, experimenting
(including success and failure).
What we have now is 2 groups of people and investors rising from the ashes of the original AMIGA , both investing money, personal commitment, IP and desire a to further those initial ingredients of our beloved platform. Both parties have great call on the community, both deserve in some measure (even that measure will be debated the way things stand) success.
Here is one question.
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
We can all sit back and take sides and fall into (no offence intended to people) a MIDDLE EAST situation.
NEVER ENDING WAR.
My next question. Is that really what we all want?
I bet overwhelmingly the answer is no. We have extremely talented coders sidelined whilst the community slides into oblivion.
We are the end users, if we choose to believe one party or the other and act accordingly we are dead in the water and we will drown even after that!
My next question.
What can we do about it?
If the community can put it's pettiness aside, I believe we can do a lot. We can make BOTH parties aware that we will boycott ALL related products unless they come to an arrangement, We ARE A VERY SMALL COMMUNITY, defiance by the masses should help.
Once again I ask you all to look at the past, understand both players have put up their hands up, both came at different times of the AMIGA history, that has to be understood but both are infected by the same bug "THERE IS SOMETHING HERE ". They have also both put their money where their mouths are ( to what extent we all really do not know) but that is for later.
LET'S ACT TOGETHER.
This proposal is for those of us with open minds and a deep desire to once again advance "IT thinking"
I propose the following:
1. Support for this proposal be gauged on this site (read further). I don't want debates, just say supported or not supported. Perhaps the Webmaster could put a poll up but copy this psot to other areas.
Tell me shut up and I will go away, respond positively and commit to it I will follow through.
2. If there is a positive feedback, I will post this to other sites and seek the same support.
3. If we get an OVERALL agreement, we elect a Community representatives to forward a community response to BOTH parties,.
4. Strategies are agreed that will impress on both parties the desire for collaboration, interaction and out of court resolving of issues.
This community is small but so talented, there are many who want to return, where do you think we are going now? We have very talented Webmasters running sites, we have coders, we have ideaspeople, but we don't have cohesiveness with those who count they are the ones who are splitting us.
I am not a coder, a Webmaster a BETA tester. I am an end user, I have a couple of very high end PCs, I don't have a current "PPC" solution BUT I do want one, or two but nott MAC and not LINUX (but it is an alternative), I want something Amiga or-ish).
Amigaseus (I don't even know how to use the smiley things!)
Can I please indulge the Webmaster to gauge my proposal or initiate a poll depending on response.
SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE DOESN'T IT. WELL I REMEMBER BEING TOLD BY A PC NUT IN ABOUT 1994 THAT DOOM WILL NEVER WORK ON AN AMIGA.
:-)
