Dear Amiga users, during the last few days a lot of missunderstanding happened, regarding our original news, covering the letter of Djordje Djurdjevic, probably the former programmer of ClickBoom. We received letter from Sofia Tsiotsikas, asking us to not post links to unchecked story... But we discussed a lot about it, and decided to don't do so, just because the story seems to be too real to be constructed. Yes, it was our choice, but you should also understand, we consider ourselves as an independent news service, and eventually hurting some company by someone else's statement is not our bussiness, so all we did was - we covered some news for people visiting our news site, while having nothing personal against ClickBoom. Try to believe us on this.... A few days ago, we found out, there is another site covering the story, but not only the original article, but also covering correspondence with PXL Computers Inc., threatening author of the page (http://www.mtek.chalmers.se/~jrblom/clickboom.html), Johan Roonblom, with filling the legal action against him, because of breaking some copyrights. We discussed the situation, and decided to not publish link to above site, unless we will not be sure, more information is available to us. The communication between Johan and PXL seems to be over, and now everyone of us can make his/her own conclusion. My own conclusion is that I don't understand, why PXL regarded situation to be so bad to threat someone with filling legal aciton against him. Hadn't Carl Sassenrath or Jim Drew provided us both with similar story about their former emloyers? What is the difference? What's the point asking us to remove such story? How can we know, the story is really untrue? We simply can't. Beeing ClickBoom or PXL I would stay silent, not commenting on anything, or just provide us with its own story. That's how I think company should act. Asking news service for removal of an article, is in my opinion, well, unprofessional, at least without further explanation. How I said - it's my opinion. And I have the right to have my own opinion. Everyone has! We are not robots. It seems we live in the world of commerce, full of press releases and lawyer, forgetting we are human beeings. Working for some company, emloying 12000 people, meeting management people on daily basis, I know what I am talking about. More friendly and open communication wouldn't hurt anyone of us, including me, of course. The day after, in the evening, when preparing new news articles, we found one interesting on AmiSITE news page. You can read how we covered the news. Sadly, it seems my knowledges of English did very bad job here. I was slightly dissappointed, why ClickBoom provided exclusivity to AmiSITE. Why? Just because in my opinion every amiga news service knew already of new, prepared, not online yet web site of ClickBoom - the portal. So I called it "the secret page". Sofia, as you can see now, I was not pointing at "the article" page, but ClickBoom's "secret" page, as I know the address, but most people don't. Then I tried to be a little bit ironic, saying something like "maybe we should remove the article, when asked", because I couldn't understand, why also another news services not received the invitation to enjoy web site opening. So that "you can read between the lines". But probably the most problematic part was quoting the AmiSITE news article. I was informed by Sofia, it looks like saying "above sentences were written by ClickBoom", but hell no! I didn't want to let it look this way. It was just my inability to properly translate what I meant. The Czech traslate was of course alright, because I had really no bad intentions to hurt ClickBoom. So, I would like to take this oportunity here, to apologize to ClickBoom and AmiSITE, for saying something that could hurt them, and will follow with further explanation: We are from Czech Republic, as you surely know, the name of our service says it all. Our country is just only some 10 years away from the communism. Can anyone of you imagine, what does it mean? You know, we were forced to learn russian here in Czech Republic. I remember that times very well. So nowadays, maybe even children in the basic school knows better english than me. I think even this letter is full of bugs, but well, you have to choose what we should to do. I sit in front of computer for more than 12 hours daily and all I do for the Amiga is just voluntary job, not beeing cheep for me (price vise). During the week, I sleep only 4 to 5 hours daily, because of preparing the news. Together with ExiE we both feel ourselves very tired sometimes, as our work on Czech Amiga News site is hard and everyday work, not beein all that fun from time to time. We are just two people doing the job. AmiSITE suggested we should take some translator, but well, it would have to be the person becoming part of our news service, working with us on a daily basis, on-line, because we can't accept even 1 day delay, so we don't think the situation is solvable for us nowadays. Well, that's all for now. The letters from Sofia (ClickBOOM) and Tom Hurst (AmiSITE) are attached. My last note to so called "article". - It would be against my morale to hurt ClickBoom, as I have no personal relation to the content of "the article". Thank you for your attention ... Sincerely yours, Petr -pekr- Krenzelok Czech Amiga News