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| Posted by gary_c on 09-Aug-2004 02:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 57 (AF):
Actually I suggested to quit this childrens game as I think it should finally stop for the sake of both MorphOS and AmigaOS supporters. I only listed some facts because I wanted to show Garry that Genesi isn't holy.
The trouble with your "facts" is that, as is typical in this kind of discussion, they aren't accurate, as I hope I indicated with some success. I imagine you were at least sincere, as opposed to some guys who deliberately post things that aren't true. But you can't come up with a semi-informed account like that and expect everyone else to go "ah, yes, the true facts."
But as usual the same people show up to attack other points of view. Both Amiga Inc and Genesi's reputation are far from perfect.
The problem is, first of all, we don't have all the pertinent information regarding something like, for example, Genesi's hiring practices. We don't know what traspired between the company and the individual. We don't know what Genesi's cash flow really was at the time. The list of unknowns goes on and on. And yet you bring the hiring practices up as one of the "facts" that reveals Genesi's true nature. Time for a little epistomology review, I'd say, or at least a Journalism 101 refresher or quick look through "Legal Claims for Idiots."
The fact however is that Amiga Inc now has found a new owner with enough cash to also buy an interesting Finnish company and that Amiga Inc's AmigaOS4 partners Hyperion & Eyetech have good reputations.
I hope you realize how partisan that description is. The new owner of Amiga, Inc. is none other than the original investors, as Garry Hare explained. Yes, they acquired that other company. We remain quite ignorant about how much money KMOS actually has for Amiga development and promotion or anything else.
While I'm not going to criticize Hyperion and Eyetech, if you've read ANN.lu for any length of time, you'll know there are, shall we say, alternative points of view to those stated by Ben Hermann from time to time. In any case, let's assume no one can take customer trust for granted.
<io>The owner situation of Genesi remains about the same it seems, of course the usual big talk, but not even enough Peg2s to satisfy a small Peg fanbase.
Well, "the usual big talk" has, I think, been muted considerably. What talk there is seems to be limited to MorphZone.org, so you'd have to go searching for it if you're not otherwise a Pegasos user. And, even while Genesi is selling to Freescale, etc., in that bigger market, we see there are Pegasos boards available these days, so I'm not sure what your point is. Seems to me Genesi is doing what it needs to do to stay financially viable. (I'll refrain from comparisons with AmigaOne "availability," suitability of the product for other markets, promotional efforts by the platform leaders, recognition by industry, etc.)
I am not on a witchhunt. I am trying to point out your own biases and then hopefully these people finally start to think about their own behaviour.
OK, but the living in glass houses rule applies. Your own contributions have not been anywhere close to neutral. Let's all pause a moment to reflect.... :-)
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