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14.Sep.1999 Newsmaster |
Open Letter to Tom Schmidt The latest Executive Update leaves open questions, as always. :-( Therefore, I wrote an Open Letter, that asks the one basic question I think most of us would ask if they had the chance... From: Martin Baute solar@baud.de To: team@amiga-news.de Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:12:43 +0200 Subject: Open Letter to Tom Schmidt Voller Name: Martin Baute Homepage: http://www.baud.de/public/members/solar.html Dear Sir, we are the Amiga community. We are a community of people brought together by a very different kind of computing, which survived despite the gravest of circumstances, beyond bancrupty, beyond despair, beyond obsoletion. The community survived because there was hope, and little alternative. We look at the market of home, personal, and office computing, and we see bloated, inefficient, unreliable systems that offer little "feeling" to the power user, and much irritation to the beginner. So we dared to hope, that one day there would be a computing alternative available again to the masses, one that made computing fun again for everyone, not only for the elusive few who actually like to modify arcane registry entries or .rc lines. And our hopes, for long, and sometimes very dark years, were on the brand named "Amiga", because this brand - rather, the philosophy and spirit it stood for - embodied what we liked in computing. We have seen many changes at the helm, even more changes in direction. And every time again, ever since EsCom times up to the latest ongoings at Amiga Inc., whenever there was a change at helm or a change in direction, we feared. Our fear always was the same. Will there be an Amiga computer we can buy, to sit on our desks at home or in the office? There has always been talk about Set-Top-Boxes. In more recent times, there is talk about "information appliances". But what the community anxiously waits for, always has waited for when the winds of change were blowing, is not about Set-Top-Boxes, not about "information appliances". I do not want to critizise, to the contrary. There are evolving markets out there waiting to be explored, and it is a good feeling that Amiga might be among the spearhead of explorers to this market. However, for us, the existing, living, starving community scattered all around the world, for the distributors, developers, vendors, users, for us, it is the desktop we most anxiously wait for. Yes, there certainly is a mass market for Set-Top-Boxes and information appliances, and the Amiga Inc. concept for a pervasive home network is a nice one for sure. But all this is not what the brand "Amiga" promises to us. To make a long story short, to ask the question so vital for motivation, faith, and hope for many of us, I ask you: - Do the plans at Amiga Inc., which you told us will be followed through, still include a home/personal computer product range similar or at least alike to the "Multimedia Convergence Computer" previously presented by Amiga Inc.? Manufactured by Amiga Inc. itself, or by third party manufacturers? (Means, will we see hardware as revolutionary as your software technology, or will we share the fate of BeOS, fine OS without own plattform?) - And will it be presented anywhere near to the original time scale (1st quarter 2000)? A question so simple, but of utmost importance for those who look at Amiga Inc. today. Those looking at Amiga tomorrow might be satisfied by Set-Top-Boxes and "information appliances". We are not. Scatter our fears. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With kindest regards, -- Martin Baute /// Amiga A1200 Towerhawk - PowerPC 603e / MC68060 => solar@baud.de <= /// Newsmaster - English: http://www.amiga-news.de Member of Team AMIGA \\\/// Member of the Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers 100% Microsoft free! \XX/ Maintainer of Version Watch: http://www.vwatch.de Amiga - The Last Line of Defense. -- www.baud.de Permission granted (and readers encouraged) to spread and copy Erlaubnis erteilt (und Leser ermutigt) zum Kopieren und Verbreiten(ps) [News message: 14. Sep. 1999, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
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