From: "fleecy moss" 
Reply-To: "fleecy moss" 
Subject: Clarification on Desktops
Date: 2 Nov 98 11:10:17 -0500

Hey there 8-)
 
I just went over to Aminew on CUCUG and became steaming mad - that
bastard from Amiga, Mr Moss says that desktops don't matter anymore,
and that Amiga doesn't need us anymore....well f**k him!!!!


....eeerrrr, oh, that was me........

To clarify (and to  demonstrate once again that sarcasm and innuendo
is hard to do with a colon and some brackets), the letter I wrote to
Gary was in response to a particular letter expressing concern that
AInc is abandoning the current market.


If you look, you will see that "need" is in quotes - the reason,
because technically, we don't "need" desktops to succeed, precisely
because we are not concentrating solely on desktops.

This I feel is an important point that the community needs to
understand. I have said many times that we are not just about bringing
 an uptodate Amiga desktop back to the existing market. To do that
would probably spell our doom.

We are about defining a new market, a market in which destops are at
home with  intelligent TVs, games consoles, servers and workstations -
where it isn't the size of your hardware that counts but its ability
to do the work you need it to do.

Rest assured that there will be desktop Amigas, workstations and
servers - you lot out there are living proof that a market exists for
them. I am in constant contact with HW companies who are looking at
the logistics of producing their own NG medium and high end Amigas.


As for not needing the community, again the comment made was a
technical metaphor - of course we don't "need" it, in the same way
that France doesn't need its world cup players to play in the world
cup in 2002 -  they would just be idiots not to use them.

The Amiga community is the heart and soul of the Amiga.