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There's no way we will make this a z5 asks Fleecy session.

Why not? He has some very good and to-the-point questions, no-one can deny that.

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If you think we would pick all your questions, like you suggested a short while ago. There's no way we will make this a z5 asks Fleecy session

It doesn't interest me at all who asks the questions. What interests me is that important questions should be asked. What i'm interested in is the future of the Amiga. That's why i'm here.

You can do hundreds of QA's like this, and still you will not learn anything. You know very well that you are avoiding all the "difficult" questions.

Nothing in what AmigaInc has done, has impressed me or anyone else (apart from the fact that they managed to stay alive). Do you ever wonder how many people work at AmigaInc? I do. I find this a very important question. Don't you wonder why they didn't come out with a dev kit for AmigaDE after the partypack? I do. Don't you wonder why they suddenly changed direction: from AmigaDE OS to OS4 with a bit of DE thrown in? Don't you wonder what they have worked on the last 3 years? I do. Don't you wonder why they don't manage to complete one deal? I do. Don't you wonder if this 'company' has an office? Don't you wonder why they aren't able to print a t-shirt?

And i could go on and on. THAT are important questions in my opinion.

But hey, as i said, i rest my case. If you want to believe that they are doing great, go ahead. You are optimist, i tend to consider my realist.

@SlimJim
Aha thats why you'r on picture and i'm not at AmiGBG fair

@Z5
Well i was refering to the efforts in the comunity like this weekly thingy that you'r not quite happy with.

with the question "what did you expect from Amiga.inc"
we will find the answer to you'r dissatisfaction and many others....theres just to big expectations from a small company like Amiga.inc, especially in these hard times.

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@Loki1

Most of Amiga´s developments have focused on distribution and API´s easing content development on DE. The stuff for distribution is only usable to you of you have a SDA agreement with Amiga for the other stuff(Ami2d and other gear) you can either wait for the next update of the SDK alternativly get it through other means(NDA or similar).
In the 1.3 SDK you have mostly us working with Tao inproving among other things GFX handeling and so on.

Later

Jonas Gustavsson
Amiga Inc.

That said, I do think that z5 have some decent and interesting
questions that would be interesting to get the answer to. But
that doesn't automatically disqualify questions about the
future as well.
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SlimJim

>Nothing in what AmigaInc has done, has impressed me or anyone else (apart from the fact that they managed to stay alive)

OK, fine :)

>Do you ever wonder how many people work at AmigaInc?

Buisness issue should be asked to buisness managers not CTO(I talk to 10 people on a daily basis and I work mostly with graphics issues make your own extrapolation from that)

>Don't you wonder why they didn't come out with a dev kit for AmigaDE after the partypack?

buisness issues mostly but also to get a stable development enviroment and as much content possible.

>Don't you wonder why they suddenly changed direction: from AmigaDE OS to OS4 with a bit of DE thrown in?

I havent seen anything sudden about a refocus on AOS aswell as DE.

>Don't you wonder what they have worked on the last 3 years?

Last time I checked I didnt have to report my timesheets to you but Ill play along, personaly Ive worked on ami2d(2d api with stuff like realtime scaling, sprites, image conversion and so on), DT(Datatypes for DE), Prism(script based interface toolkit), Ami3d(worked with Hyperion on 3d lib for DE), various interfaces( for hosts and applications), host intergration work plus some odd bits here and there. What other people have done is up to them to tell you but I could tell you that once we are ready to release anything you will be the frist to know.What have you done over the last couple of years??????? ;D

>Don't you wonder why they don't manage to complete one deal?

Hmm Microsoft doesnt count here I guess :D
Also of note most Hardware related products take atleast 2 years to market but yes some deals have failed(not all that suprising given that 9/10 of the biggest players in the mobile industry bleed money and have done so for the last 2 years.

>Don't you wonder if this 'company' has an office?

Buisness Issue, not to mention why do you care or are you coming over for tea and a brownie? :)

>Don't you wonder why they aren't able to print a t-shirt?

Already been adressed all over.

Happy?????

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Jonas Gustavsson
Amiga Inc.

@Messiah

For once I have to agree with z5. His questions and your
answers to them ARE actually more interesting than most
of those presented to and answered by fleecy!

I wonder how people would react to a "Weekly Q&A with
Messiah" ... It would probably increase the traffic to this
site at least - not to mention getting lucrative banners
from the Vatican...
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SlimJim

@SlimJim

Then I beg to differ, I get a tad anoyed when people dont seem to understand the difference tween a CEO and a CTO or the difference tween buisness and development issues. I do understand that people whnt to ask a lot of questions that deal with buisness side of things but then you shouldnt direct em at Fleecy. Also even if Fleecy had all the buisness stuff squared down its not his place to make public policy about those things(neither is it my place as I only develop graphics related stuff).

As a side note I would like to add that while we(Amiga) wants to be as open as possible we cant be totaly transperant(not a good policy if you want to stay alive).

A Q&A with me would be extremly booring as I realy only like to talk about Home Theatre construction, highend graphics, embedded graphics or house music(oh and about my Norwegian Forest cat Tigger) ha ha :)

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Jonas Gustavsson
Amiga Inc.

And the flaming has begun over there at "the other place.org". That crew is so predictable. I almost felt myself cringe... then I started to see how silly it all sounded. Well, that's all the amusment I needed for today.

@Messiah

Hey? You missed the smileys in my post?
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SlimJim

he he, well here is one at you aswell :)

but I do think the point shold be made about what I said before.

Later

Jonas Gustavsson
Amiga Inc.

@ Hooligan

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Why not? He has some very good and to-the-point questions, no-one can deny that.

He suggested to ask all his questions in one go. This would be 100% in contradiction to our aims of asking questions from as many different users as possible.

Some of his questions are interesting and so are those of others. Suggesting that we should only ask his questions is IMO a bit arrogant and even if we would do so, I believe I already know the outcome: z5 being dissapointed with the given answers and suggesting 10 of his new "more difficult questions" to be asked.

I value z5's and your input, but to think that we will only focus on his or your questions would be strange, arrogant and will not happen.

@Herewegoagain

I tried to post this as news on that other site, but was knocked back .

I don't quite understand why people are getting so fired up over these Q&A sessions. They are kind of reminiscent of the Donald Pleasance Q&As in Amiga Format and CU Amiga. Most of the time a straight answer would not be provided (CD64 anyone ). But they at least provided a direct link between the community and the company.

Cheers

I vote for staying the way it is for now. When the questions start drying up then drop back to bi-weekly or monthly.

I think that this weeks questions were of the hard-hitting kind. However, he did not answer them. If he gets them answered for next weeks then that will be great.

However, if they are not answered then I would change my vote to cancel the Q/A.

Loki

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Thanx guys for asking my question.
Thanx Fleecy for reply.

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Treke

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I tried to post this as news on that other site, but was knocked back .

Hmmm... I mentioned AmigaWorld.net on ANN, and someone found it necessary to make a spoof post by me (even faking the IP address!) claiming I love AInc, etc ...

That is why ANN is worthless as a place of discussion.

A good question to Fleecy would be, what does he think why is this hostility (if there is hostility at all) on "other" sites towards Amiga Inc. many seem to claim here.

It may turn out to be like the "opression" many claimed to feel here.