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Posted on 27-Feb-2004 08:29 GMT by Christian Kemp | 214 comments View flat View list |
In a thread titled "How many unpaid Genesi employees?" on Moo Bunny, Johan Rönnblom posted his story.
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How many unpaid Genesi employees? : Comment 154 of 214 | ANN.lu |
Posted by samface on 01-Mar-2004 08:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 152 (Johan Rönnblom): Not because I want to start another flamewar, but merely point the flaws in your so-called comparison:
>1) AInc did this for a lot longer time.
Well, they've been around alot longer than Genesi and Thendic. Besides, Thendic seems to owe alot more *people*.
>2) AInc owes people a *lot* more money than Thendic/Genesi.
I don't know, ask the Thendic liquidator how much the unpaid salaries of Thendic adds up to.
>3) AInc have not even started to pay for over a year now, while
>Genesi's troubles are just a few months old and being worked on (of
>course you can speculate all you want, and I won't tell any inside
>info to stop you).
Well, I'm just amazed how much they have accomplished in such a short period of time...
>Besides this, AInc did a lot of other things, like:
>a) T-shirt/coupon scam.
They have failed to deliver the t-shirts, but this fact alone does not make it a "scam". Regarding the coupons, how could they possibly give rebates on products that their third parties has yet to deliver? And no, the rebates was not for Linux based prereleases. Did you know that there are even those who are renewing their Club Amiga memberships? Yet people like you go on and on and on about this like it would be an outrageous "scam", while those who are actually paying are happy campers. How can this be? Is it possible that this whole scam thing is just the invention of MorphOS/Pegasos zealots?
>b) Lying about OS4 being nearly finished when in fact it wasn't even
>started.
What? MorphOS wasn't even started? Oh, I see... You conviniently forgot that they were negotiating with bPlan about making MorphOS the official next generation AmigaOS at that time. One could say that bPlan broke Amiga Inc.'s promise to the community, which would be kind of ironic.
>c) Entering a stupid contract with Thendic, and then breaking it.
That's a big NO. Genesi, who claims to have nothing to do with the actual licensee ("Thendic"), *claimed* that Amiga Inc. would have breached this contract. The judge ruled on a *summary judgement* because of the defendants inability to defend themselves with proper legal counsel. There is nothing what so ever in the ruling that says Genesi was actually right about their claims.
It is in my firm belief that Amiga Inc. would have easily been able to dismiss Genesi's claims if they only had legal counsel.
>d) Selling IP they didn't own (parts of OS3.9, TCP/IP for example).
Amiga Inc. != Haage&Partner
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