Amiga Case Designer Faces Intimidation

[Darrin]

How anyone could be mad enough to appoint you as a *moderator* on *any* board (yes, even AmigaWorld.net) is a great mystery...

:confused:

Apparently they voted me in.

Your disapproval amuses me.  

[dammy]

I don't agree. The reason is here: "to not market the product using CUSA's licensed trade mark!" They knew I was NEVER going to do that and even Leo said it was a revenge thing.

If you fail to see that then...

No, for him to post it on the forums was payback, else he would have done it via email/pm for anyone else violating the IP.

[TheDaddy]

Here is the thing: You *were doing it*! Maybe you weren't really aware of it yourself (so maybe it wasn't intentional), and maybe it's not entirely correct to speak about "marketing" when it comes to a *none-product*, but you *did* post infringing photos in your attempt to spread information (read: market) your "thing", there *was* a valid call for that notice, and you did deserve *every little bit* of those two polite one-liners you got in a forum! :lol:

This fuss you created out of it is totally out of line though!

I am *evidently* not the only one tired of this endless, cross board CUSA spamming!

What is with the asterisks man?

Anyway...even if "my thing" did anything you usually send a PM not post it on a public forum but what you FAIL to see is that Leo even SAID IT it was revenge for the fake photos I found...nothing more, nothing less.

[TheDaddy]

No, for him to post it on the forums was payback, else he would have done it via email/pm for anyone else violating the IP.

See TMHGM? Even Dammy says it.
:-)

[dammy]

How anyone could be mad enough to appoint you as a *moderator* on *any* board (yes, even AmigaWorld.net) is a great mystery...

:confused:

By voting him as a moderator, it limited his trolling on AWN.  So there was a reason for people to vote him as a moderator.

[Duce]

Dammy and TMHG lecturing about trolling, now I've seen it all.  Might as well trot the ghost of Hitler out in a pair of bunny slippers to lecture us about racial tolerance.  The irony is so high around here.  :roflmao:

The first guy being a guy that would just as soon see A.org be renamed
"cusaistheonlyamiga.really.com, the latter being a guy that can derail a thread about prices of tea in China into a MOS vs. OS4 war.

Beyond funny.  If you hadn't noticed, the majority of people here are not denying it was in C-USA's interests to do what they did - the sticking point was the extremely unprofessional and public way they did it.  I've said it before, I'll say it again - I just wish they would go away entirely from A.org.
If I'm in the market for a Linux PC, I know where to find them.

But maybe I'm missing something.  Maybe this is the new 2.0 way of running a business, but I don't recall seeing Jobs or Gates on hobby forums sites whining and making threats about their likenesses being used (which was not ever the case in TheDaddy's story, he was more than clear the item would *NOT* come branded as shown).

[takemehomegrandma]

No, for him to post it on the forums was payback, else he would have done it via email/pm for anyone else violating the IP.

:roflmao:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah, or come with a formal threat of law-suit (I can imagine the letter that Hyperion sent to Commodore), or maybe even filing a law-suit for real! But making a polite request in a web forum, that is just sheer evil, payback from the dark forces, etc to stop "the good ones".

:insane:

[OlafS3]

Yes it was "payback". But when you are in the business world you have to look at what you do. And products are not only the product itself, it is also image/view of the (potential) customers. So instead of admitting that it was propably the false way to reach the goal here (by CUSA) it seem some are concentrating on the creator of the thread (and his views regarding Hyperion in the past).

[AJCopland]

Can someone lock and/or delete this thread?

It was a petty way of requesting TheDaddy not to use the Amiga trademark and we shouldn't be advocating or defending pettiness by anyone in the community.

I've read through 3 entire threads of brainaching stupidity and it's immensely frustrating to see TheDaddy's work being sidelined by personal vendetta's and derailed by opportunists sniping comments.

TheDaddy has made computer case, some people will like it, some people won't. He's NOT going to be selling it with a logo and *if* anyone who does own the Amiga trademark (which C-USA don't) does complain then they should probably learn from this whirlwind of poop that it's probably better to do it via an email or PM.

About the only good thing to come out of all this is that everyone agrees that C-USA don't own the trademark which anyone could have checked previously anyway!

[dammy]

See TMHGM? Even Dammy says it.
:-)

I bet that will be the last time Leo does so publicly.  Erika should have been the one to directly communicated with you about your violation of IP.

[Darrin]

I bet that will be the last time Leo does so publicly.  Erika should have been the one to directly communicated with you about your violation of IP.

Is she the secretary?

I think you'll probably find she prefers you to call her "miss Erika".

I bet the The Daddy's lawyer would have preferred an "official harassment letter".  

[darkage]

Some how I get the feeling Im witnessing the slow destruction of the Amiga community here :-/

[OlafS3]

Who is Erika? ...

Sometimes I think you talk to a concrete wall...

Nobody denied that they had the right to make the request, and they even could do it in public legally. But they should have known it that this would not create sympathy in the community. If they had sent the same text with pm/email to thedadddy he certainly would have removed all signs of "amiga". Nobody here is interested to be involved in legal actions just because of a hobby.

[OlafS3]

community makes the impression of unity and that does not exist for a long time...

[takemehomegrandma]

It was a petty way of requesting TheDaddy not to use the Amiga trademark and we shouldn't be advocating or defending pettiness by anyone in the community.

Yes, a better and kinder way would obviously be to send the pitbull lawyers without prior warning, and let them have their go. People wouldn't complain on forums if *that* happened!

:lol:

[spirantho]

community makes the impression of unity and that does not exist for a long time...

Actually, I think there really is a community, and quite a strong one at that.
The problem is that they tend to get on with being a community rather than spending all their time screaming and shouting about whose OS is better than whose, whose CPU is faster than whose, whose Dad could beat up whose Dad. That leaves all the noise to come from people who seem intent on re-starting the old Red vs. Blue wars of 6 years ago or whatever, so it seems much worse than it is.

As usual it's the minority that are the vocal ones, most people on this site are united by the fact that we all love Amigas - and there is still a community there, if you can seperate the wheat from the (very vocal) chaff.