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Evert Carton speaks About Cooperation Posted on 6-Apr-2013 1:53:11
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paolone wrote: @Daedalus
[quote] So the problem won't be that someone "stole" the name we are all fond of, but that our rants will be reduced to what they really are: un-influential, pointless little complaints from a little, microscopic community over the IT world.
I don't know if you remember this post of yours ... but I bookmarked it ...
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It reminded me then and now of the closing scene in the animated movie "Antz"
A movie full of drama and wars and what not ... But in the closing scene, the camera zooms out and you get the perspective of the drama and the wars.
I added the black square to focus on the tiny little anthill, the setting of the movie ...
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Reply in 2 years old thread? Nice grave robbing. So colourful memories to read again our heated discussion back then... It is sad some faces left AW for good.
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I also found these kind of threads here and on other sites, you do not have to dig deep. But to use your analogy, a couple of ants are weak but when they become more and more ants can become a power.
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OlafS25 wrote: @jorit2
I also found these kind of threads here and on other sites, you do not have to dig deep. But to use your analogy, a couple of ants are weak but when they become more and more ants can become a power.
I agree ... The cool thing about ants is not that they become a power when they become more and more ... what's really fascinating is what they can do when they work together ... and how they instinctively start working together.
I find this an extraordinary video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 1:59:28
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I'm sorry, but wtf?
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 2:25:52
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 2:39:52
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My own conclusion when seeing this litle documentary is that the queen is saved thanks to the user-base. But they need also a portion of calculated luck and lots of drive.
Are we the ants and amigaos is our queen?
When will we hit land?
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 2:50:45
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Is this a discussion about cooperation and it's benefits ?, if so i suggest the title changed to "Evert Carton speaks about cooperation". _________________
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 2:54:50
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Is this a discussion about cooperation and it's benefits ?, if so i suggest the title changed to "Evert Carton speaks about cooperation". |
We think alike on that one. That was what I was typing... when I realized this could end up with a more general discussion. Not knowing...I left it a general title for now.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 3:08:53
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Cooperation is a good idea.
Rich or poor, high class or low class, everybody puts a little part in it and so the project is from everybody for everybody.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 3:21:08
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ok, i dont know the movie so im not sure if i get the whole message with all implications, while the alegory is rather generic... obviously any fight is insignificant from outside perspective.
for instance what about the queens? i mean, ant societies are not freely reconfigurable, if a queen dies, her following is doomed. it cannot adapt to this circumstance and choose another from amongst themselves or be convinced to obey some outsider, so far i know.
therefore im not sure if i can identify myself with an ant in this context (even though i like ants!). for me amiga was effectively an anarchistic idea, at least what become of it, not a strongly ruled elitist following of a commercial company, like its used to refer to what apple users are. this, perhaps, becuase the company was too weak and the users had to substitute for the lack of leadership (which is good imho). therefore todays logical consequence of what is left of this "amiga" movement must be open source, reconfigurable and adaptable, classless , spontaneous community, bare loyalities.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 3:27:58
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My own conclusion when seeing this litle documentary is that the queen is saved thanks to the user-base. But they need also a portion of calculated luck and lots of drive. Are we the ants and amigaos is our queen? |
im not sure if being compared to ants, their queens and wars was meant as something positive. rather critical. |
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 3:51:40
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Most people see only critical (negative) things, as this is how things are remembered to survive. But seeing it in a possive way and remembering the good and bad things is a much better aproge.
I have no problem to scale myself down to a working ant because if i know that everybody does the same effort (puts for example 10 euro/dollar/gold into the project) that we will (have to) succeed in the end. Also because the project is then from everybody and everybody can give their input to choose the best way to go on the go.
The best way is not to fight with all the different camps but to combine the powers to reach a goal. Last edited by Dirk-B on 06-Apr-2013 at 04:05 AM. Last edited by Dirk-B on 06-Apr-2013 at 03:57 AM. Last edited by Dirk-B on 06-Apr-2013 at 03:53 AM.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 4:35:26
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Most people see only critical (negative) things, as this is how things are remembered to survive. But seeing it in a possive way and remembering the good and bad things is a much better aproge. |
why? i most certainly dont only remember or experience only negative things about amiga. see what ive posted to evert above: "therefore todays logical consequence of what is left of this "amiga" movement must be open source, reconfigurable and adaptable, classless , spontaneous community, bare loyalities." this is an outline what i consider to make sense for us today, what works and is fun, and doesnt demand of us to reduce ourselves to ants, whatever skills or preferences we had.
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I have no problem to scale myself down to a working ant because if i know that everybody does the same effort (puts for example 10 euro/dollar/gold into the project) that we will (have to) succeed in the end. Also because the project is then from everybody and everybody can give their input to choose the best way to go on the go. |
this part of our activity is so to say freelance, so i accept no duties and also do not demand that from others. im fine with a little sacrifice if need be but i must be convinced that this is good for the whole community not just elitist interests.
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The best way is not to fight with all the different camps but to combine the powers to reach a goal. |
true, but who defines the goal? more specificly there is no goal, as there is no gral to find. there is only little particular practical goals we can cooperate on. if you want "one common goal" you are reffering to some by definition unreachable abstract idea, that effectively has no impact. usually it is just this "dreaming" and "hoping" we hear about so much, and which would be more appropriate towards something more romantic than computers. |
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 5:52:33
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You boys ...
I just wanted to make a retrospective comment about the fighting ... and how futile it all is in the big scheme of things ... I took the animated movie, not the documentary, as an, IMHO, fitting analogy ... I lifted the comment from a now notorious thread, seemed fitting, and thereby bumping the thread itself ... Obviously with what I've seen over the years in mind, and what I have seen myself this very week ...
For those not familiar with the movie: It's a movie about drama and wars and ... in an ant community. At the end, with the camera zooming out ... you can see how futile and small that community of ants really is ... in the big world.
Well, since the movie was obviously not made with the Amiga community in mind ... the movie is clearly a reflection on mankind ... about our wars ... and how futile it all really is in the big scheme of things.
It was simply an analogy, one I liked, and a confirmation of Paolones original comment.
Then came the comment from OlafS25 about .. the ants ... however small they may be, they become powerful when there are many of them.
It veered a little from the original intent of my comment, but I did like it and wanted to show that it was not the size of the group that matters but one of cooperation. Not contradicting the post by OlafS25 but rather elaborating on it.
And by then this has turned into a discussion about cooperation
Of course, when I do make a comment about the drama and the wars and the futility of it all, it does imply an underlying statement about how it think it would be good to cooperate, but that was not the intention of my original post ...
Anyway, this has been debated at length before, and I can't see myself bringing any new and useful arguments to the table other than a rather meaningless "of course cooperation would be good !"
As Wawa points out and as the previous debates on this matter have shown, it is not that easy, and I'm not gonna take a stance on that one.
But please don't restrain yourself
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 6:14:35
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| @jorit2 rest assured that it is not all infighting that goes on around whatever people here consider "amiga". the community has absolutely enjoyable sides, which might not be emphasized by what and how is going on in here, but also a little discussion isnt always wrong to sharpen the wits and reconsider. ;)
btw, is it really you who posted on moo? i bet, yes.. i never use that site, because its hard to verify the identity of posters, but its sometimes fun to read. Last edited by wawa on 06-Apr-2013 at 06:25 AM.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 8:00:46
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cooperation is good! Please, change the title as suggested.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 10:06:42
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User identify the different OSs mainly with the User Interface (Wanderer, Ambient, Workbench) but that is wrong because the backbone is the OS, the API with the different Libraries, Devices, support of USB, PCI and so on. They are mostly identical on all platforms (when you look at it from a application/user) but everyone develops it himself and thus wasting limited resources. Instead of everyone doing everything himself it would be much better if this backbone would be identical for all and opensource and there would still the chance to use a different desktop and add (closed source) components. It would have a lot of advantages because the API would be really identical on all platforms, everyone would automatically benefit of improvements (updated drivers, improved libraries and so on) and resources would not be wasted by reinventing wheels, development would be faster for all.
I asked that Ben H. in the last discussion and got no answer (the discussion soon became emotional) but I hope somewhen there will be a change of mind in both closed source camps. |
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 10:58:41
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Instead of everyone doing everything himself it would be much better if this backbone would be identical for all and opensource and there would still the chance to use a different desktop and add (closed source) components. It would have a lot of advantages because the API would be really identical on all platforms, everyone would automatically benefit of improvements (updated drivers, improved libraries and so on) and resources would not be wasted by reinventing wheels, development would be faster for all. |
What a great idea!
After all, with keeping the 'backbone' so inaccessible, and since development seems to be at a standstill (while the rest of the computing world is moving forward at a rapid pace with leaps and bounds,) it's kinda guaranteeing that the Amiga platform will become just another Betamax, or 8-Track system.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 11:26:17
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 11:35:17
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Nope, I haven't a clue what this is about.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 11:54:25
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...how come the "missing posts" that "are here" aint ones I can even recall being deleted from "Trevors Blog" the other day. |
Our frenemies over at Moo screenshot the whole thread (because they've nought else to do with their valuable time, obviously) so it's captured for all internet eternity online. A Public Service, I say! Why do this? Because the weather is too crap for gardening, there's nothing on Telly, Footys not started (possibly) and Golf? Like any of that lot CAN budge from their supine positions on the lounge sofa.
It's all rather hilarious, I think.
I like to hear what Evert has to say, and he has, without being under attack. That's a good thing, in my book at least.
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Re: Evert Carton speaks Posted on 6-Apr-2013 12:15:49
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