You can't really believe that Jens income is basically from the hardware he makes for the Amiga community do you?
Amiga is a hobby for Jens and he creates hardware because he likes to.
OK he gets some money from time to time, but profitwise, his mk1 Indivision series was not SUCH a profit for him based on his sayings. A1200 mk1 version was indeed profitable, but the A4000/CD32 version took 3 years to sell out and his ECS series didn't go as well as he planned.
I'm not a businessman myself but I guess investing to something that MIGHT give you some ROI back in 3 years... is a bad investment.
Recently he announced also that his has another field of income and way more profitable.
I really hope you'll gain something with this petition but I certainly doubt it.
Jens bought the rights and schematics for the Apollo boards just to get rid of them from the community. As he said numerous times, Apollo's weren't made (at least from his POV) right and created only fuss and grief to it's owners (especially the Apollo 630 which he hates deadly lol).
I can't judge his own perspective although I tend to disagree with his attitude from time to time.
Well put Mfilos! We should be happy anything is made for amiga, it is rarely profitable and most the time is nearly a labor of love.
Apollo boards are junk. the scsi is bad,the board trace routing is bad,the main connectors on many boards are bad or low quality and have the signature leaking batteries.. Apollo is a plague more than anything. I can't
blame Jens for wanting to bury them. Why not spend a bit more money and get a decent accelerator. I seriously doubt Jens will ever release the Mach chip code ever.
-Mech-
