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INDEPENDENT AMIGA SUPPORTING INITIATIVES ARE BEING BOYCOTTED BY ESTABLISHED AMIGA SERVICES
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As you all know I've been working a lot on the 'No Amiga To Waste' site
during the past 6 months. It takes up at least 3 hours of programming
and/or maintaining each day. I've invested money to rent a virtual server,
to buy programmingbooks and graphicsprograms. I've tried to stay as integer
as possible and only mention development related sites in the links section.
There has been one exception : a link to the AWD (since they almost force
you to do so if you submit a new link). The only banners showing up on the
pages are those of the AWN Banner Exchange Program (which I fail to see as
a competing service to the AWD) and this to try to get the site known as
quickly as possible (since other means take up a lot of efforts and time).
I'm sure I'm not an exception and that there are several people doing similar efforts for the Amiga. What I find shocking, however, is the fact that I have to do as much or even more efforts as commercial sites just to get listed on several established Amiga online and offline newssources. One really gets the impression that new initiatives first have to get some subjective credibility and have to show concrete achievements before newsorganisations are even willing to mention them! Now it would be great if someone could explain me how a new initiative can get known and supported without it being mentioned in the news.
I thought newsservices were hunting for new information, but I guess I'm wrong and even the Amiga society seems to be overwhelmed by commercial discrimination.
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