Unmoderated] Amitopia boycots Amiga INC.

Posted on 18-Mar-2002 17:00 GMT by Michal

Yup. The Microsoft announcement was the final straw. We will now only support ELBOX, HYPERION & bPlan from now on. We will write about Amiga INC's plans, but thats all. We will send a letter wich will inform Amiga INC. why we boycot them. If you are against the partnership with Microsoft, please send a mail to: amitopia@amiga.ca today! Your comment will be put onto the letter! Boycot against Amiga INC. partnership with Microsoft

Authors of the biggest Amiga portal in Poland, decided to whitdraw from publishing anything(news/stories) directly connected with "Amiga Inc." due to the last ".NET & Amiga marriage".

Here its translation from polish:

Dear users,

The latest Amiga Inc. policy shifts (which we mention below) give us no other option as to say farewell to them for good and show them our boinging balls as a good-bye. Although the hardkore anti-UAE group would never get it, The Adminus Magnificus In Their Armourus Radiatus® have never been fervent fans of Microsoft policy and their "innovations" in the field of technology and alike (in which we differ, for example, from our Polish government).

We cannot and do not intend to watch idly as the company which "exciting" (or should it be "arousing"?) announcements we publish from time to time intends to lend (or spare) a hand to the biggest scr*w-up in the Internet history called .NET and being another rather cunning M$ idea to overpower the naive dwellers of the global village.

In the coming days the prophetic minds of the amiSheep will surely perceive a new conspiracy theory lurking behind the bare facts and try to rationalize why Microsoft is a big, good daddy company that wants to help the poor and it is not a coincidence that ami-CEO's name is Bill, too. Yet, it is a well-known fact that the only company Microsoft cares about is Microsoft itself.

To sum the whole thing up, we remove all the links to Amiga Inc. from our site. We also stop publishing any news concerning the company, its products, its employees, etc., no matter how exciting (or even arousing) they would be.
As far as Amiga Classic, MorphOS and other alike are concerned, everything remains unchanged.

Amen, brothers (and sisters).

Unmoderated] SWAUG cuts ties with Amiga, INC.

Posted on 17-Mar-2002 22:55 GMT by SWAUG info

At South Wales Amiga User Group we cannot see the relevance of direction that Amiga,Inc is taking at the moment. The Microsoft announcement was the final straw. Therefore from now on we will only focus on Amiga "Classic" ( I hate that phrase).
At South Wales Amiga User Group we cannot see the relevance of direction that Amiga,Inc is taking at the moment.

The Microsoft announcement was the final straw. Therefore from now on we will only focus on Amiga "Classic" ( I hate that phrase).

Amiga Inc's agenda is very different to what we believe is the future direction of the Amiga and therefore we will continue to support the likes of Hyperion, Eyetech and other developers still writing for real Amigas.

The increasing prevelence of software such as Amithlon, AmigaXL is also a concern. It is promoting the disuse of true Amiga hardware. Likewise not sooner developing a native Amiga version of AmigaDE/Anywhere has the effect of further fragmenting the Amiga Community.