IWIN? Do you really think that a company of several hundred people who have the ability to produce computers would use their CEO for their HTML programming? It's just one guy pulling our chains.
Here is a copy of my E-Mail to Thomas Schmidt, the new President of Amiga Inc. I am certain that if any Amigans read it they will agree and help to spread as big of a boycott on Gateway as we can.
Greetings,
You emphasize that the Amiga is not about a box or an operating system. It most certainly is. Gateway has destroyed what was left of the Amiga, because like yourself, no one there has any idea what the Amiga is about. It absolutely is about much more than a box and an operating system, but the fact of the matter is, that the spirit that has kept it alive has been inspired by that box you denounce. The problem is, you are afraid. You can't see that if you came out with a product you would sell hundreds of thousands of units before you ever had to spend a dime on marketing. Microsoft embodies your fear. I'll tell you where your fear should lie. The Amiga community. This is a community made up of a group of people with superior computer knowledge in comparison to the morons using Microsoft products around the world. We are also very spread out. We can and will make a great influence on everyone we know who buys PC's. There will not be an Amigan supporting Gateway. You have just put the first nail in Gateway's coffin.
I work for the military and we buy computers all of the time. What have we bought since I started working here? Gateways. We have purchased over 200 Gateways in the past year. Yesterday I was given the order to find and purchase 50 laptops. I will be getting Dells. I would have made the purchase from Gateway 3 weeks ago. You are a fool if you don't think this kind of thing will be happening all over the place now. You let a few million people down who all hate Microsoft, yet who for the most part make at least part of their income because they work on PC's. We will influence the companies we work for and our friends and families. In one week I have already turned 54 potential Gateway sales into 52 Dell sales and 2 Micron sales. I will be posting a copy of this letter to you on Slash.Dot as well as many other places. You picked the wrong group of people to start a fight with. Amigans have salt. We have been through it. We have stamina and stick to our guns. The word will spread fast and linger a long time. Amigans will not tolerate Gateway's attitude and broken promises, as you shall see.
Thank you very much, have a nice day,
Jason Myers
As you all can see, I am pretty pissed off. You know, there are still very powerful Amigas on the horizon, if not from the company Amiga itself. I don't care what the cost, I am going to purchase the most souped up G4 Amiga 4000 money can buy as soon as it is released. I hope everyone else will as well. Who wants an Amiga in the kitchen anyway? I am going to buy a Video Toaster Flyer as well and then I will have a fantastic toy, with or without the help of Gateway.
I am sure after reading these posts that a lot of people are so fed up that they are giving Amiga up for dead. I am not. If you are one of those who are, please do what you can to boycott Gateway and to have others boycott it as well. The power of "word of mouth" is a strong one. As most people won't even understand your reasoning behind it, there is no real need to go into lengthy explainations, just be sure they understand that Gateway is a company full of hollow promises. They are sitting back saying, "We're making billions of dollars and you're not, so we must be doing something right." Show them that they have done a terrible wrong and will pay for it.
I also urge you to call Gateway at 1(800)428-3929 as many times as you think you can afford (800 numbers are FREE and cost Gateway!) and talk to everyone who answers the phone. Let them know your feelings and tie up their lines!
I agree as well. I am going to wait and see what happens. I will definately purchase the machine. A lot of people are frightened of the idea of Linux being used as the core kernel of the OS or OE, what have you. I felt the same way when I first read the information. I was shocked and I too wondered what was so "revolutionary" about that. I started thinking of it a little differently though. Kickstart can be thought of as the core kernel of the classic Amiga OS. Kickstart is very small and really plays no huge part in the overall use of the Amiga. We have seen Kickstart evolve from a floppy disk to a ROM, yet the actual OS, AmigaDos, could very well have run if Kickstart was originally Linux. Since it actually seems as if there will be a tangible product released in the semi-near future, whereas there has not been anything remarkable released for the Amiga Community to salivate over in far too many years, I think that it would be wise to see what Amiga Inc. has to offer once they actually have it to offer. I can say one thing from my own personal experience of having worked at Gateway for over a year and that is that they are a very secretive bunch. Even though it seems like they are holding back half of the information we want to find out, they are holding back three times as much as we think they are. I don't want to lose some of the features that only the Amiga has offered, such as multiple resolutions displayed simultaneously on multiple screens, dynamic RAM disks, screen sizes that you can set the size of yourself rather than having four choices, etc. I would like to see a browser better than IBrowse, and action games better than Gloom though. I want to finally have a machine that can hurt the hell out of Microsoft. At present, I show people my Amigas quite often and although they are impressed by a lot, there isn't much I could sell them on buying one with. I think that Amiga Inc. will actually be giving us a machine that we can show off to Beamers and perhaps cause them to make a purchase of their own. With this in mind, I think that they will become very well supported and that anything we have to complain about now, would inevitably be taken care of later, especially considering the fact that the best shareware and PD writers in the world are Amigans.
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IWIN? Do you really think that a company of several hundred people who have the ability to produce computers would use their CEO for their HTML programming? It's just one guy pulling our chains.
Here is a copy of my E-Mail to Thomas Schmidt, the new President of Amiga Inc. I am certain that if any Amigans read it they will agree and help to spread as big of a boycott on Gateway as we can.
Greetings,
You emphasize that the Amiga is not about a box or an operating system. It most certainly is. Gateway has destroyed what was left of the Amiga, because like yourself, no one there has any idea what the Amiga is about. It absolutely is about much more than a box and an operating system, but the fact of the matter is, that the spirit that has kept it alive has been inspired by that box you denounce. The problem is, you are afraid. You can't see that if you came out with a product you would sell hundreds of thousands of units before you ever had to spend a dime on marketing. Microsoft embodies your fear. I'll tell you where your fear should lie. The Amiga community. This is a community made up of a group of people with superior computer knowledge in comparison to the morons using Microsoft products around the world. We are also very spread out. We can and will make a great influence on everyone we know who buys PC's. There will not be an Amigan supporting Gateway. You have just put the first nail in Gateway's coffin.
I work for the military and we buy computers all of the time. What have we bought since I started working here? Gateways. We have purchased over 200 Gateways in the past year. Yesterday I was given the order to find and purchase 50 laptops. I will be getting Dells. I would have made the purchase from Gateway 3 weeks ago. You are a fool if you don't think this kind of thing will be happening all over the place now. You let a few million people down who all hate Microsoft, yet who for the most part make at least part of their income because they work on PC's. We will influence the companies we work for and our friends and families. In one week I have already turned 54 potential Gateway sales into 52 Dell sales and 2 Micron sales. I will be posting a copy of this letter to you on Slash.Dot as well as many other places. You picked the wrong group of people to start a fight with. Amigans have salt. We have been through it. We have stamina and stick to our guns. The word will spread fast and linger a long time. Amigans will not tolerate Gateway's attitude and broken promises, as you shall see.
Thank you very much, have a nice day,
Jason Myers
As you all can see, I am pretty pissed off. You know, there are still very powerful Amigas on the horizon, if not from the company Amiga itself. I don't care what the cost, I am going to purchase the most souped up G4 Amiga 4000 money can buy as soon as it is released. I hope everyone else will as well. Who wants an Amiga in the kitchen anyway? I am going to buy a Video Toaster Flyer as well and then I will have a fantastic toy, with or without the help of Gateway.
I am sure after reading these posts that a lot of people are so fed up that they are giving Amiga up for dead. I am not. If you are one of those who are, please do what you can to boycott Gateway and to have others boycott it as well. The power of "word of mouth" is a strong one. As most people won't even understand your reasoning behind it, there is no real need to go into lengthy explainations, just be sure they understand that Gateway is a company full of hollow promises. They are sitting back saying, "We're making billions of dollars and you're not, so we must be doing something right." Show them that they have done a terrible wrong and will pay for it.
I also urge you to call Gateway at 1(800)428-3929 as many times as you think you can afford (800 numbers are FREE and cost Gateway!) and talk to everyone who answers the phone. Let them know your feelings and tie up their lines!
I agree as well. I am going to wait and see what happens. I will definately purchase the machine. A lot of people are frightened of the idea of Linux being used as the core kernel of the OS or OE, what have you. I felt the same way when I first read the information. I was shocked and I too wondered what was so "revolutionary" about that. I started thinking of it a little differently though. Kickstart can be thought of as the core kernel of the classic Amiga OS. Kickstart is very small and really plays no huge part in the overall use of the Amiga. We have seen Kickstart evolve from a floppy disk to a ROM, yet the actual OS, AmigaDos, could very well have run if Kickstart was originally Linux.
Since it actually seems as if there will be a tangible product released in the semi-near future, whereas there has not been anything remarkable released for the Amiga Community to salivate over in far too many years, I think that it would be wise to see what Amiga Inc. has to offer once they actually have it to offer. I can say one thing from my own personal experience of having worked at Gateway for over a year and that is that they are a very secretive bunch. Even though it seems like they are holding back half of the information we want to find out, they are holding back three times as much as we think they are. I don't want to lose some of the features that only the Amiga has offered, such as multiple resolutions displayed simultaneously on multiple screens, dynamic RAM disks, screen sizes that you can set the size of yourself rather than having four choices, etc. I would like to see a browser better than IBrowse, and action games better than Gloom though. I want to finally have a machine that can hurt the hell out of Microsoft. At present, I show people my Amigas quite often and although they are impressed by a lot, there isn't much I could sell them on buying one with. I think that Amiga Inc. will actually be giving us a machine that we can show off to Beamers and perhaps cause them to make a purchase of their own. With this in mind, I think that they will become very well supported and that anything we have to complain about now, would inevitably be taken care of later, especially considering the fact that the best shareware and PD writers in the world are Amigans.