From: "Gary Peake"Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Sober Analysis of "The Plan" Date: 27 Oct 98 23:13:04 -0600 fleecy@netreach.net scribed to us about Re: Sober Analysis of "The Plan" (fwd) in EMail This is a response from Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc regarding my post to comp.sys.amiga.misc ... reposted here with permission from Fleecy. >For Amiga Inc we don't "need" the existing community. Our market is >much bigger than just desktops and, in another sense, it won't be us >that concentrates on the desktop and high end, it will be our >licencees. Our OS and HW references will scale. >So technically the Amiga community could die and we would be ok. >However, this is a limited way of looking at the situation. >The existing Amiga gives us >a) a good name and reputation -many ppl remember it very fondly, >b) a worldwide seed community for the new machines - not many >companies can work on a product with an almost guaranteed first sale >of 100,00 units. c) a worldwide evangelical force d) a very talented >pool of developers e) a philosophy and attitude that is just waiting >to be promoted and will be so much more effective than the stale >Apple "think Differently" >The problem is that many in the existing community are only looking >at their existing 1980's definition of computing, and of how the >Amiga fits into that, so because we are not building PPC A5000s with >PPCOS4, they feel betrayed. It requires a whole new mindset >-computers are no longer just geek toys - they are the conduits for >digital information. >Feel free to repost this Thanks for watching the newsgroups and correcting us where we need it Fleecy! -- gpeake@wt.net http://web.wt.net/~gpeake/ babylon.beyondirc.net #team*amiga -- Team AMIGA - Dedicated, motivated, and committed to changing the world of computing. 6000 plus strong and growing daily!