amiga-news.de - Commentary: The long night of comments

17.Apr.2002
Chris Hodges Commentary: The long night of comments - Chris Hodges

In politics it is all only a theatre play, a put-up job, a show for the audience. Amiga user don't need that - since years they are following one mud bath after the other. Would be something for the TV. Or Spielberg -- "Saving private, hobby MorphOS", but you still have to wait for the "M-Day" after that you could let the blood squirt like hell.

There is speculation about legal issues, which might happen when the one operating system would really be published in that form a beta version has been made public more than a year ago. And who has to sue whom, which chances every party has - and over and over again the same accusations were repeated and denied from both sides. But you learn it at school: thesis - argument - evidence. Without evidences you have to sit down and get a really bad mark.

Others like e. g. Bill Buck, "no luck", are publishing private e-mails as an evidence that both sides don't act very professional. And straight in the center, there is Benjamin, an elephant lawyer in a china shop, who does'nt say the things in a roundabout way since a long time. And he never ever forgets anything. Just like Ralph Schmidt. But nearly as quarrelsome are some MOS fans and of course the complementary AmigaOS 4 trolls too. It's worse than some UFO conspiration theoretics.

It's nearly like science fiction: features are compared which nobody has ever seen. Judical instances are skiped, let's go to high court directly. Or better on the streets, so we might clear up all that senseless and personal insults. Just like in the movie ´Fight Club´. somehow I don't loose that feeling that all smash the others face, just movielike. But the audience doesn't think it's funny any more.

Or who has been first, who divides, who cribed from whom. That are the questions, which "the stupid American" or "the incompetent German judge" cannot answer. For that you will need a nine years lasting lawstudy. All the user can do is waiting and even threads at various news services with about 400 comments don't help any further.

Sometimes silence is really more worth than gold. With every wrong word the "amiga community" is shrinking a bit. Give me a broom that I can clean up the rubble.

I believe that Amiga OS 4 as well as MorphOS are much promising projects and a bunch very high talented developers are working on it. But as long as I haven't seen anything more up to date from both, MorphOS and AmigaOS4, it is nothing worth to debate about it.

Basically we all want the Amiga to be revitalized. But just like Aimee Mann says in her song "Frankenstein", in such a lovely way:

"When you're building your own creation /
Nothing's better than real, than a real imitation."

Maybe those fighting cocks would be better for politics?

Chris Hodges
WWW: http://www.platon42.de
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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