| From: | dave |
| Date: | 6 Apr 2001 at 17:56:55 |
| Subject: | Re: And so it begins...... |
--- In amigactive@y..., No_good@j... wrote:
> > then, we all have bad days. And it's pretty easy to become an
> > asshole when
> > people are constantly slagging you, and your work off.
>
> The problem is that he come across as an asshole ALL the time! I'm
> sure he really isn't. Well actually I'm not sure, how can someone
> act like that towards other people all the time and not be one?
>
> You always see Ralph getting the boot in first.
I'd semi-disagree with that. He only seems to get arsey when people
flame him for being part of p5, post his messages to mailing lists out
of context (and just include the sensationalist bits), or when people
flame him for posting info about competitors products (which people
might construe as putting the boot in).
The most recent case I can think of is the Mediator. He posted on ANN
about it having problems because there was a memory window, and there
would be problems with MMU tricks. Everyone jumped on him for that.
Now we know he was right to an extent. There wasn't a problem with the
memory window until you started looking to use screenmodes with big
memory requirements, and Warp3D development was more awkward. However,
if you make all the accesses to Mediator drivers go through Elbox's
Mediator driver (or future versions) there won't be a problem, it'll
jst be slower. Elbox also worked round this using the MMU and as Ralph
pointed out, there have been problems with it.
He does seem to have a short fuse when people piss him off though :)
> > Yep, I understand. But because of the precious community I'm not
> allowed a free
> > choice between AOS4.0 and MorphOS? Well, if thats the case, f*ck
> the community.
>
> No-one ever said that there shouldn't be a choice, i'm not saying
> that you shouldn't be able to choose, but there is too few people
> left to support more than one option.
If AInc and MOSteam are aiming to sell only to remaining Amiga users,
they're both screwed no matter if there is only one option. And why
should the people left support either of them? Out of loyalty? Dogs
are loyal. Like you say, people who are users will buy whatever
suits their needs. If they fail to sell enough copies of their OS,
they can't go blaming people for not buying something they don't want,
making it pretty much their own fault for not selling to a wide enough
audience.
> > >> that which exists in preference of that which doesn't.
>
> They're just in their little gang. It is all politics. Very sad.
Yeah, makes you wonder if AInc will try to block MOS. They definately
won't get any co-operation from MOSteam with H&P officially onboard.
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