[Coco] Stop the flame wars people.

[Ryan Pritchard]

If you have a beef with others take it off list with them.  Others like myself don't need to be part of this non-sense.  The first year I joined this list there was another flame war going on, and another budding CoCo hardware developer just cut his ties from the list.  He had proposed some interesting hardware he was working on/planning to work on.  But now he has been silent even if he may still monitor the list.

I don't want to see any more people leave the list, let alone stop developing their hardware or software that extends the life of these wonderful systems.  Everyone is entitled to develop things for the old systems, and like the real commercial world out there many ideas get copied.  There are reasons to choose each, and reasons to choose neither one or the other.  Advertising has always shown comparisons to competitors, sometimes advertising is perfectly accurate and other times advertising is garbage.  We educated consumers will know what is what and make our decisions appropriately.  So wether in this case Roger or Cloud9 has the best product of choose, well we can all decide for ourselves, with what ever form of advertising they choose.  When my thinly spread big boy toy budget gets destined to my CoCo, I will choose the product that has the best options for my needs.

Most of us are adults and I am sure we can all agree to disagree.  Yes we take things personally at times, and feel hurt by them.  But when we continuously retaliate in a public forum, we demonstrate how silly we can be.  I would say childish but I have seen children that behave better than some of us here on this list.

Regards,

Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies