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Posted on 04-Dec-2002 13:31 GMT by Christian Kemp | 275 comments View flat View list |
Eyetech replied to Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco's recent posting in the AmigaOne group at Yahoo. This is a repost under my name, since the original poster asked for the article to be removed. I don't agree with the view that this message should be kept off ANN since it is an interesting read and presents, in a way, the other side of the story; but after some consideration decided to respect the original poster's wish to have his posting and name removed, and opted to create a duplicate.
I'm afraid Buck has exceeded even his usual level of bullshit and innuendo
on this one.
My take on this:
Our announcement of the G4 availability and pricing, and of the (solved)
Articia problem at the WoA SE was not what he expected. Since then we have
been innundated for dealership agreements from ex-Amiga dealers who have
(and their customers have) good memories of the Amiga OS and a growing
hatred of Windows. The polls, such as they, are show that the A1-XE G4 is by
far the most popular PPC platform for the Amiga community and this must also
have been a bit of a shock. (Is it also a coincidence that we've been the
recipients of an intense, targeted virus campaign since then, I wonder?)
Meanwhile Hyperions work on PPCBoot and linux has allowed the Teron
reference boards to get to a level where they can be usefully sold in the
Linux Market. As most on this list will know we have the rights to
distribute these boards in Europe and now Terrasoft do in the US. (We also
have distribution rights on the Teron based designs for the Amiga marker
worldwide). This has knackered Thendics plans for world domination of the
PPC Linux market.
Reading between the lines it seems that they are prepared to drop MorphOS
altogether if they can get their hands on OS4 to at least salvage something.
Buck plans to do this by suing Amiga Inc (for what?) and bribing us to
abandon the AmigaOne and Hyperion to port OS4 to the pegasos hardware .
Sorry, thats not on. You can only have sensible business arrangements with
people who are trustworthy and behave with integrity. There are plenty of
instances (which are inappropriate to reveal here) where these principles
have been completely abandoned on his side.
On their so-called relationship with MAI, we/hyperion have done more to help
MAI get the Teron design to the linux market than ever bplan have, alltough
I don't doubt that Gerald Carda made an important contribution to
identifying the Articia bug - I've every respect for him as a hardware
engineer.
As far as Thendic making their own boards is concerned thats a complete
joke. Its a matter of public record that Thendic-France incorporated as a
one-man company with the minimum 7500 euros of capital. Thendic, like us and
MAI do not actually make anything themselves, manufacture is all
subcontracted. In our case its to a Tiawanese specialist, in Thendic's its
to DCE. Based on our past experience of quality assurance and after sales
service from DCE I personally would never buy any DCE manufactured products
for resale again.
Well you did ask
Alan
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Eyetech Reply to BBRV open post. : Comment 233 of 275 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 05-Dec-2002 14:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 192 (pixie): >Before you go to sleep, ask yourself three questions:
Too late, I was already at sleep.
>* Do I know what moderation is!?
Yes, I work for you almost on a daily basis, moderating post as news, correcting links, etc
>* Do I know what impartiality is!?
Impartiality is not being pissed off like you do when reading my comment.
Imagine that I could have jumped on all the people here that talk crap without knowing sh* to told them they are idiots.
I did not do that because instead of getting angry at everyone I can just witness what happen and either think these guys are pathetic or laugh.
>* Do I know what pseudonyms are used for!?
Yes they are for people that do not have the balls to put their real name.
>You should then meditate over these issues, after a long good night sleep you >should be able to find the answers to these questions.
I did, now it is your turn.
>Damn! You're so biased it scares! (i.e. for a moderator, that is)
As Christian said my moderator role does not forbid to voice my opinion.
There are 2 kinds of people on ANN:
a) - people that have information that "normal" people do not have
b) - people that are clueless
a) - people that keep relatively quiet or completely quiet
b) - people that are very loud
a) people that plays the transparency, the honesty
b) people that play a role, that are just here to apply tactics.
Unfortunately there are a lot of b) here. There are elso some people with mixed a) b)
I try as much as possible to stay close from a)
For example I can disclose this here now that everything has been revealed.
Why did I wrote my comment ? Well if you go back in the ANN archives you will see that I personaly asked about the bug to Ben weeks ago (a) when everyone was clueless and that he said something like "There is no bug, the MorphOS team is clueless"
Note that I asked him gently (a) instead of bashing him and telling him he was the clueless one, there was a bug, etc. (a)
I also knew the bug was here as myself and my business partner have a Pegasos and have been experiencing the bug.
At this time I knew that bplan were working with MAI to fix the bug.
I think Thendic did not make big news with this at this time (a) and did not went to MAI to provide a fix that was then made available to bplan competitors(a)
After we got the WOASE announcement with the mention of the fixed articia. Note that, it was a shame that Eyetech announced a fixed articia with letting think that Bplan/Thendic did not have it while there will be no bug correction without them (b). Maybe it was not Eyetech fist intention but some people in the that knew (a) were playing a role saying "Eyetech has a fixed board, we don't know about Bplan"
Note that at this time I did not say that these people were screwing the people that were indirectly fixing their board (a)
While we werewaiting for fixed Pegasos boards I was told that there were some new bugs found and that bplan was working on it (a). Note that hey could have send us semi fixed boards.
I did not come here to say that Eyetech were clueless, that their boards were not really fixed etc(a)
Then I knew that bplan did a fix and that they would have boards ready for Aachen. Once again I stay quiet (a).
Then Bill Buck does the April + other stuff press release.
Of course when you missed almost all parts of the story (like you may have) you think his post was very confusing (b). I found out the pun "no MAI without april" (MAI means may in french). I did not post it and asked if I was right to BBRV that told me I was right. I did not brag about finding out (a).
Then BBRV reveal everything (a) and hundreds of clueless people say he is bad bad bad (b). Eyetech answer that he is spreading FUD (b)while I think that Alan honestly thought that there is no more bug and may have doubt from the BBRV post (a) I think it was a mistake to bash him without being assured that there is no bug left. I like Alan and I think he'd better have clarified the situation with bplan before doing such public statement. That would have helped everyone.
Now I wait and see. With my business partner we have an Amiga shop and we have been waiting OS4 and Amigaone for years. We have no biased as we sell what our customers ask. Some of them asked for the Pegasos so we will sell it, some of them ask for the AmigaOne and we will sell it as soon as it has OS4.
You may think I'am pro Pegasos/Morphos but if the Amigaone/AOS4 would have been ready before the Pegasos/MorphOS then some people would think I'am pro Amiga.
Well, now do what you want with this post. I did it in an honest way. My views may have been different if I would not have known so many details. But again I knew this details because we have customers asking for a product and that we wanted to have it completely fixed before shipping it and that Thendic has been honest and told us about the bugs.
>Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas too ! Get something from your Amiga dealer. If you pick up a few Applications it will help to have them on OS4/Pegasos. |
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