This is an article reproduced from Anarchy's Stolen Data #4. According to issue #5 of this diskmag, the Swedish group Multum joined a bit later.
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THE FRIENDSHIP MOVEMENT
by MUNSTER / SPREADPOINT
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Perhaps ya have still heard something
about FRIENDSHIP. But nevertheles I'll
explain a little bit about this new
movement.
If ya look at the scene today you see a
few groups which are organized
professionally and make a lot of money
in this business. You also see a lot
of groups and persons buying from these
groups. You see a lot of fights and
struggles in the szene, you see groups
on TV telling secrets that shouldn't be
said officially, you see guys telling
private addresses to the police, you
see a lot of groups and guys suffering
from inferiority complexes who maintain
that they are the number one.
But you also see a couple of groups
which doesn't like this situation and
decided to found a movement based on
the spirit of friendship, teamwork and
fun.
Some of these groups are old groups,
they still remember the first years on
Amiga when only a few groups existed,
when all have known each other, when
they went to (coder-)meetings and had a
lot of fun together.
Some groups are younger ones, they are
fed up with the spirit of business and
competition, they wonna work in a
creative way, they wonna exchange their
experiences at this great machine and
improve their knowledges in coding,
music and GFX.
And some only wonna have fun and cool
chats, they wonna have nice contacts
TOGETHER with other freaks, not AGAINST
them.
Considering this bad development of the
scene in the last years some of the
best-known groups decided to found a
new label:
FRIENDSHIP
The aim of this movement is to build up
a new scene based on friendship,
teamwork, cool chats, exchanging
knowldges and informations, helping
each other and making cool visits and
partys instead of always trying to be
the number one (really silly), fighting
against each other and as consequence
of these bad activities making the
officials treating simple freaks as
real criminals.
All the groups which join this movement
called FRIENDSHIP spread this idea in
all their productions. They also know
all other members of FRIENDSHIP coz
there are contact-persons in each group
who can be contacted by all other
member-groups of FRIENDSHIP. The
groups in this movement help each other
in all cases, e.g. they exchange
sources, GFX and sounds, they visit and
call each other. And they all can only
laugh about groups who claim to be the
number one and wonna be sooo coooooool.
That's really childish, it's perhaps an
aim for little kids, but not for mature
computer-specialists.
OK, i hope you understand now the aims
and intentions of FRIENDSHIP. Now lets
say a little about the organisation
itself.
At the beginning of 1990 I was really
fed up with the situation in the scene
and wanted to change something. So I
searched for persons who thought in the
same way. Beneave all SPREADPOINT
members Cocaine of APEX agreed with me.
Together we tried to spread this idea
all over the scene, and something
wonderful happened. We met a lot of
guys of RED SECTOR at Cebit 90 and some
partys and they all agreed!!
And when I visited Hannover in the
holidays, I met Cocaine, Mr. Soundwave
and Dr. Beat. In this evening we
founded FRIENDSHIP officially, RED
SECTOR, APEX and SPREADPOINT. And we
joined some other groups to this
movement because I knew that they
surely will work in FRIENDSHIP. Now
has FRIENDSHIP the following members:
Rebels, Subway, Fraxion, Venom, Vision,
Red Sector, Apex and Spreadpoint.
And a lot of groups want to join this
idea. For all these guys who have the
same aim like us I give ya now our
FRIENDSHIP contact address for more
infos. Also write to this address if
ya want to join FRIENDSHIP:
PLK 185996 E
3000 Hannover 1
W.-Germany
If ya have a modem, call our FRIENDSHIP
board (with 'coder-corner'), it goes
down to 2400 Baud, coz we wonna give
coders and other interested persons the
chance to call this board (I think most
people do NOT have a 14.4 US-robotics)
Here's the number: +32 87866808 in
Belgium.
So that's all for today, if you are
interested, feel free to contact
FRIENDSHIP.
Yours
MUNSTER / SPREADPOINT
PS: Of course ya can do only legal
activities by these addresses.
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