About that Ben Yoris incident, I specifically said (and I repeat it here) that his assessment of the situation was wrong. More so because he was talking about OS 4 in general, not only on the AmigaOne.
You are wrong here.
The Thread he was talking in was about a new Amigaone dealer in France and OS4 to be available for it in march.
What Ben did is to say that users should not expect to have OS4 ready for their Amigaone in march, that it could be much longer than that (up to end of 2003).
He was just trying to avoid the people to be angry at Hyperion one more time because of slipping release dates, purchased AmigaOne that run only Linux and so on.
You have implied on ANN that Ben was lying and this was wrong. :-x
It may be because of a confusion of the (bad) translation which included only what Ben said but you have jumped to conclusions to fast.
It is the same history as with Bill Buck claiming there is no MAI without april.
We can see that up to today he was right: The Amigaone has not shipped in large numbers because of the Articia chip. The April chip correct the bugs that are being corrected in the upcoming Articia.
It is the same story as with Ben H claiming in september last year that the Articia had no bug and that Bplan where not smart enough to find out that.
Hyperion lost its credibility !
What is killing Hyperion/Eyetech right now is the fact that they have been announcing release dates that were predictably not possible and also the fact that they jump on each Genesi announce to say "it's wrong it's wrong, it is FUD", stolen source code public allegations and so on.
You may have better stayed quiet on the Ben Yoris case for example. I understand your position as being just the coder and not the marketing person, but then do not play marketing people role at all.
I appreciate a lot the Hyperion people for what they did and what they do but I suspect that Ben H has been knowing for ages that OS4 was far from being completed and played this delay game just to hurt the competition.
I'am also sure that if you were not an Hyperion employee and would use all your objectiveness you would think that delivering end users with machine that do not run the expected OS and not giving them any official release date is something that should not happen. It is also a way to lock in these users and get them away from the competition.
If I was Genesi I would have taken much more aggressive actions against such low actions.
We have nothing against the Frieden brothers, we just have wished that the Amiga and Hyperion heads would not have taken us for more idiots than we are. :-(
I also have always wondered if Hyperion took over OS4 because they had great business plans for it or if it was just to wage a vendetta coming from old PPC kernel stupid fights.
It is sad that you have been taken into these poor political tricks. Good luck anyway.
