[Unmoderated] Gerd Frank sells out to KMOS! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 22-Oct-2004 20:41 GMT by | 102 comments View flat View list |
http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2004-10-00131-DE.html
for an english translation:
"due to absolutely unsatisfactory co-operation on the part of Genesi and disregard of a contract within one period from now meanwhile scarcely 16 months, it is to be supported us unfortunately not possible the Pegasos and thus particularly MorphOS regarding an adapted version from AmiATLAS to.
This applies accordingly also to all other projects e.g. OctaMed Soundstudio or XiPaint. Our emphasis will be thus logically AmigaOne and/or AmigaOS4. We regret it, however the past process does not lie in our hand. Nevertheless all MorphOS Usern for the future much fun with the system!
AmiATLAS development team,
Gerd frank
KMOS paid him to work on OS4 projects only!
Eyetech gave him a FREE AmigaTeron.
Hyperion gave him a FREE OS4 kit.
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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 23-Oct-2004 11:53 GMT | In reply to Comment 46 (hooligan/dcs): > Frank was promised Pegasos in November 2002, in july 2003 he still hadnt got
> it, and now that we are turning to 2005 he decided that he has had enough?
According to his post he has apparently been waiting for a free Peg (or something) during the last 16 months, and while that fact of course is sad, there is this same old explanation as always to this - the sudden cash-flow shortage due to the Pretory crisis. I believe Genesi found themselves in a situation where they had to choke as many costs as possible, especially those who didn't lead to a direct revenue in return. Priorities had to be made. This was discussed in the context of the Pegasos 2 upgrade programme too, which temporarily was put on hold last spring due to the very same circumstances. Genesi could only produce that many Pegasos motherboards at that time, and they had to prioritize those who paid money for them. If they would have continued to give away systems to the left and right for free at that time, they would have done that at their own peril. That was simply out of the question, and I think that is absolutely understandable. But it's sad to see Frank making this decision now, after the major part of these dark months is already over and things seems to be looking kind of bright again. A few people with "phreeboards" who bought Pegasos II's has passed on their old Peg1's to other developers for free, and Freescale is giving away more than one hundred free systems in three batches, in an offer that was open to *any* PPC developer, even OS4 ones. But no-one seem to have remembered Franks name in any of these occasions. Perhaps he wasn't visible enough on the radar screens, perhaps he simply fell between two chairs or something, I don't know. I can't say I blame him for his decision, and I can't say I blame Genesi either, because I can't see how they could have done it differently because of the situation they were in. It has just been a quite unfortunate situation. Ah, well ... |
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