No, that did happen. It just wasn't particularly impressive for the amount of noise that was made.
The noisemakers (read: *SPAMMERS*) comes down to some 5 people, and CUSA aren't one of them.
I already wrote they could have send him a message or email with the same content and when he not reacts they would have had every right to make it public.
Nothing, N-O-T-H-I-N-G in those two sentences
"An image has been presented to me of this unit featuring AMIGA branding. This is a friendly request to remove that from your advertising" warranted yet another (now 17 pages, and obviously still growing) hate thread, with
"Amiga Case Designer Faces Intimidation" war headlines! There was never any issue, it's all Darrin's work!
That would have avoided the public bashing...
No it wouldn't, that's my point! There will be CUSA spamming as long as Darrin and his kind is posting here! :rolleyes:
I am a little astonished about what you write. I have every respect for any person who invests his/her time (and money) for a project to bring sth. usefully and wanted to the community.
But come on. I don't want to belittle his little case/mod, but what's so frekkin' astonishing about it? Who hasn't done anything like that? I have made a few cases myself in various materials, not always good (made one in wood that actually was kind of nice), but I'm not going on about it for *years*, creating thread after thread about it, making polls about "what should it be called", etc! It's not a product, it has been a 7 year hobby for him, but it's *not* a concern of a whole community! We have spent weeks discussing its name. We have spent weeks discussing its color and surface finish. And now it seems we will spend weeks discussing where he should put his LED holes. Gaah! And now it's purpose seem to be ammo in some people's pointless CUSA war... :rolleyes:
CUSA has invested to gather the license that is OK. But that is not a "big effort" in my view.
Hehe, where were you during the last decade, when countless of efforts of getting a proper Amiga license failed one after another, and where people could only dream about the Commodore brand? I'd say that bringing those two together is a little bit more than "OK" and a small effort. Many failed.
But as I said, I couldn't care less about any of those brands. But that doesn't mean I think it's OK to belittle this, *especially* not in the same sentence where you praise "TheDaddy's" case as being the next big thing for the Amiga community!
They assemble standard pcs, that does every small computer-company here (nothing special).
Now that's interesting. *Exactly what* is "standard" about the C64x case? It's a really unique thing, properly designed and manufactured, coudln't be more custom made, and not anywhere near something made from bent sheet metal. And making a design isn't the same thing as putting something to the market. A huge amount of resources is needed, so is good management, marketing, etc.
