#: 7613 S1/General Interest
    20-Oct-90  22:29:47
Sb: The Week in Review
Fm: Wayne Day 76703,376
To: All

The recent discussions between various participants in the newest round of OS-9
hardware development has been, to say the least, distressing to many folks. 
Never before in the history of this forum have I received as many requests from
forum members to "do something".

If it appears as if we, the forum's SYSOPs, just sat back and waited for things
to take their natural course... your perception is right.  That really was the
only way things would be able to work out so that everyone felt that they got a
fair shake.

I, or any of the SYSOPS, could have moved any or all of the messages out of
public view.  We could have delted the message.  We could have asked everyone
to hold out their hands while we got the rulers out (those of you who attended
Catholic schools will know what I mean!).

We didn't, and because we allowed the conversations to progress, both on the
forum and (thankfully for the outcome) offline as well, everyone looks like
they're friends again, or at least plan on being civil to each other in an
attempt to serve the OS-9 community with factual and appropriate comments about
their own hardware, leaving the OS-9 user to make up his own mind about who is,
or is not, the "good guy".

Now, in an effort to help prevent something like this from happening in the
future, we're shuffling the sections around a little bit to provide a private
section where OS-9 vendors (hardware and/or software) can talk amongst
themselves.

We've moved the messages and the library files from the Atari ST section into
the general OS9/68000 (OSK) section, at least for the next while, and Section
13 has been assigned to OS-9 Vendors.

Unlucky 13?  Only if it's not used!

And to all, a little reminder that we always want forum members to feel free to
express themselves almost however they want.  The exceptions are personal
attacks on anyone which never serve any good purpose and tend to alienate so
many folks (as was demonstrated again over the last few days!).

Thanks to all for making and keeping this forum the OS-9 community's best foot
forward!

  Wayne Day
  forum manager