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- {subhead} Gary Peake Speaks- Part 2{def}{p}
- Article by Gary Peake
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- {bold}Privacy Information:{nobold}
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- We are having, as I stated earlier, new privacy, copy right, trade mark,
- and license statements made for the web site. I just obtained a ruling that
- allows us to accept faxed NDA's as legal documents so this has been taken
- care of. Amiga Inc. paid millions of dollars for the trade marks, copy
- rights, licenses, etc. We do intend to protect them to the fullest extent
- possible. This does NOT however mean that we intend to force normal support
- sites or users who have Amiga news sites to pay money. But they will have
- to follow standard, legal, trade mark and copyright provisions, licensing
- included. Our protectionist stance also allows us greater leverage in
- closing down sites which might pirate commercial developer applications and
- allows us to protect what we have paid millions of dollars for. I think
- Bill and I have made our intentions clear on this matter in several forums.
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- The MAC (NIC) address is being used by us as a means of getting developers
- registered to our dev site so that we can have databases of information
- that will help YOU find developmental help, beta testers, programming
- partners, and maybe other areas of assistance for developers. We will also
- ask user groups to log into a database so users anywhere can locate the
- nearest user groups. Users buying registered developer software will have a
- place to log their purchases if they so choose so that registered
- developers can readily check for comments and suggestions much easier than
- they can now. We do NOT intend to sell or distribute this information. Our
- sole purpose is to assist you do a better job at merchandising and finding
- the help and assistance you need to become profitable regardless of the
- size of your company.
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- {bold}Amiga Inc. Surprises:{nobold}
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- While we have schedules we will be announcing and adhering to as closely as
- humanly possible, look for some surprises from us from time to time. These
- surprises are not designed to disenfranchise anyone. They are designed to
- create excitement and energy and to show all of you that we are not
- standing still. We reserve the right to make these surprises happen when we
- can without pre-notice to anyone.
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- We will also be posting calls from our internal development group to this
- and other lists as well as to the support site. These calls (like the audio
- call a day ago or so) will be to allow any of you with talents in a
- particular area to participate by contract (in most cases) with building
- the Dream we all have. Some of these calls will be covered under NDA and
- others will be totally open source calls. We will make sure you know which
- it is when we make them. We want participation, not lock-outs of as many of
- you as possible.
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- {bold}General Information/Sales Information:{nobold}
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- All sales related information should be sent directly to randy@amiga.com
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- All general information requests should be sent to friend@amiga.com,
- developer@amiga.com, or direct to me or my support staff.
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- We are seeking a Marcom/PR type person who will begin handling some of the
- requests once on board. If you know of anyone with experience in this area,
- send them to us please.
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- {bold}Support Sites:{nobold}
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- The basic design of the support sites is what you see there now. Amazing as
- it seems, we received one complaint and the balance of respondents liked
- the new style. I will be lightening the header color and darkening the text
- but these are the only changes we have been asked to make.
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- You will begin seeing more structure and information happening with the
- support sites late this weekend and next week. There is a lot of work to do
- there. So, please, bear with us as we try to make them as easy to navigate
- for you as possible with as much text content as possible.
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- Support email addresses for things which should not be on the list:
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- Gary Peake Director Support gary@amiga.com{p}
- Gotz Ohnesorge Support and Research gotz@amiga.com{p}
- Ray Akey Support and IT rakey@amiga.com{p}
- Jonas Gustavsson Support and 3D/64 bit jonas@amiga.com{p}
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- Hope some of this helps ...
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- Sincerely,
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- Gary Peake gary@amiga.com{p}
- Director Support{p}
- Amiga Inc.{p}
- 425-386-5660 ext 233{p}
- 425-396-5671 fax
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- The Amiga Dream Team
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