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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #104 from previous page: April 04, 2012, 04:13:14 PM »
Quote from: takemehomegrandma;686964
To me, it seems like a complete rip-off of AW.net's glory days, just past the exodus/split, when Mike Bouma, Mikey C et al held court, and would offer regular "question sessions" with their holiness Barry "Fleecy" Moss and McBill of Amiga Inc... :lol:


Oh but those "Ask Fleecy" sessions were absolutely priceless.  For comedy value alone.  They were made even more funny by the fact that some of the more ridiculous and incomprehensible answers were taken absolutely seriously by the faithful and discussed at length in the accompanying thread.

Bring back "Ask Fleecy" to amiga.org as a weekly "Ask Barry" that's what I say.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #105 on: April 04, 2012, 05:55:44 PM »
The last batch (I think)

1. Is the board of Commodore USA aware that making a PC in a case with Amiga logo is rather batting on people's lack of knowledge and questions "Amigans" intelligence?

2. Is CUSA aware that the only moral act that would have a positive sound on true Amigans who have been staying with Amiga for so many years is to make a system that will be realisticly connected to the legendary computers which should be hardware compatible (at least in some parts)?

3. Do you plan to release an inside keyboard system based on eg. A1200 but inside, instead of A1200 motherboard, there would be eg. Sam460ex or some other system based on AmigaOS 4?
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #106 on: April 04, 2012, 06:09:33 PM »
I told you all in my original post in this thread Barry wouldn't answer all questions. I knew he would weasel out of it. He's a coward. Hiding behind shill accounts here because he has no balls.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #107 on: April 04, 2012, 06:22:09 PM »
Oh I should mentioned that all my posts here on this thread, in their entirety have all been deleted.

Am I suddenly on CUSA's forum?

I asked real hardball questions. Someone did not like that, so they deleted all my posts in their entirety.

The censorship around here is getting ridiculous.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #108 on: April 04, 2012, 06:27:24 PM »
Does CUSA pay part of amiga.org's maintenance cost?
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #109 on: April 04, 2012, 06:53:15 PM »
Something must be changing for the mods to be suddenly deleting entire posts or questions that are not PRO CUSA. For the record, I'm not anti cusa, I had valid real hardball questions though. I said he would not answer them when I posted them. Looks like I was right.

Steven
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #110 on: April 04, 2012, 07:00:16 PM »
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Does CUSA pay part of amiga.org's maintenance cost?

CUSA has never given even $1 to Amiga.org
Posts on this account before August 4th, 2012 don\'t belong to me.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #111 on: April 04, 2012, 07:32:43 PM »
Why all of a sudden are the questions and conditions of this "no holds barred" interview being changed, with posts being removed and the conditions of the interview being altered?

Please don't tell me the wonky, erratic nonsense is to drive pageviews.  Whether it is this thread, or any other seemingly only controversial topics coming from certain people, it's getting old.

Do the interview under the original terms, or don't do it.  Quit jerking people around - it's unfair to the people that support this site with contributions to be used as numbers for ad revenue.  I can't think of any other reason for this wacky nonsense, and it WILL bite you in the behind in due time.

It's now being said to "not waste Barry's time with dumb questions".  The original terms were nothing was off limits.  Many people took THEIR valuable time to construct valid, polite questions for your little dog and pony show.  Quite frankly, I couldn't care less about Lord Barry's time being wasted, he agreed to an interview under clear conditions - but man, don't waste other peoples time when all they did was what was asked of them, only to have the terms flipped ass over teakettle, now seemingly under censorship.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #112 on: April 04, 2012, 07:40:06 PM »
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CUSA has never given even $1 to Amiga.org

I guess that's the price of trying to stay objective and independent at the same time? Definitely values to be admired.... :biglaugh:

But while there's no donations given so far, I can't see why not there can be cross-collaborations between A.org and Commodore USA for the future...

I'll have a word with Barry on this and see what he can do for you guys (if you want). After the interview finishes perhaps he may be open to the idea of some form of donation/sponsorship/monthly competitions and so forth...
« Last Edit: April 04, 2012, 07:45:38 PM by Middleman »
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #113 on: April 04, 2012, 07:47:55 PM »
Originally Posted by runequester  
Does CUSA pay part of amiga.org's maintenance cost?
CUSA has never given even $1 to Amiga.org

Then why were all my questions and posts on this thread deleted?

I asked valid questions concerning their past actions. And these questions were MY questions. There is no liability on the part of a.org for anything I asked or said, because they were posted by me and solely my own.

Why censor some people's questions?

I suppose it dosn't matter anyway, since Barry is now weaseling out of this "no holds barred" interview and only answering softball questions he likes.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #114 on: April 04, 2012, 07:51:29 PM »
And for the record, I agree with DUCE. You said no topic was off limits and that you'd answer any and all questions. Now your weaseling out of that like a coward? Are you kidding me? Here's just another example of why people have no respect for you and your so called "company."

I guess saying you'd answer any and all questions was just another lie in a long list of lies, half truths, and embellishments.

The perfect way to handle this like you've been handling this whole thing.

BOAST then retreat.

Coward.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #115 on: April 04, 2012, 07:51:44 PM »
Doesn't he have millions of fans on his own site, where he can post properly filtered and censored information?
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #116 on: April 04, 2012, 07:57:15 PM »
The day C-USA starts funding A.org on the sly is the day a good majority of people will leave.  They have been using the place for free advertising for 2 years, why would they start actually paying for banner ads now?  Hell, I've (and others) been asking they do exactly that since the day they stopped by.  How any user could contribute financially to this place while it's a spam dumping ground for advertising by a handful of companies for free is beyond me - I'd feel better about flushing money down the toilet, tbh.  Especially when some mods seem hell bent on essentially posting free press for some companies, press that will just start a firestorm.  It boggles my mind how this place is getting.  30 million bucks, you would think they could have shelled some out on banner ads, lol.

Sorry, Middleman.  Do your homework, and for God's sakes either disclose if you have an official relationship business wise with C-USA, or quit speaking for them.  We already have one Dammy, we don't need another.  For 2 years we were told here on A.org we are not part of their target market and we were insulted repeatedly.  People not donating to the site while using it for free advertising is not in the least bit admirable - it's a scumbag move.

The whole situation with this "interview" has gone from half assed at best to being shameful when it comes to the terms suddenly changing, and things like this will have an effect around here.  Might not be today, may not be tomorrow, but it will come.

I was often critical of Wayne.  I don't regret doing that, tbh.  But man, he must just facepalm when he sees what sort of grade school, pandering gongshow this joint has turned into.

A.org is to Amiga sites as TMZ or the National Enquirer is to credible news sources lately.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #117 on: April 04, 2012, 08:04:24 PM »
*Checks date of first post again*

No, it wasn't posted on April 1st. I just had to be sure....

You know what? This whole thing has descended into farce. I suppose that we are the idiots in all of this, by thinking that Barry and Tedd would alllow a 'no holds barred' question session. It's going to end up more like Faux News....

You want to establish credibility for CUSA? Well sorry Tedd (and maybe Barry), that credibility went straight down the toilet when Tedd started to mention only asking the 'best' questions in here. Only answering fawning fanboy questions about how 'fab' your overpriced garbage is won't win the rest of us over. You have a tough crowd to please and I doubt that you both are up to it.

I'm out of here......I have better things to do...
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #118 on: April 04, 2012, 08:09:25 PM »
I'm sending the wife out to get me some popcorn.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA
« Reply #119 on: April 04, 2012, 09:12:10 PM »
@thread:
:lol: