...well that is interesting WarPiper. I guess we can assume you are "regimental" in your kilt after that image...
About this thread...
1. WHB is the name my parents gave me. "bbrv" is the user name associated with most of the email addresses that we have. BB is Bill Buck; Raquel Velasco and I are partners, in work and life. We are married. She is the better half and set up the first account.
2. There are not any egomaniacs coming from the Genesi side of the fence. Contrary, to what one might want to believe Raquel and I are online here and in other places to do a job. Of course, we are motivated by a dream that we have about computers and the Internet, but that is another story. :-)
3. Our statements publicly about the Amiga Community have been consistent since we reappeared back here in December 2000 at the Cologne Show. We respect the talent here and saw in this Community an opportunity to build something new. What we saw was that there was no direction and there was no support to speak off. The Amiga Community was like a rudderless ship. We saw an opportunity. Initially, we tried to work with Amiga Inc., but this unfortunately did not work out. Amiga Inc. has not even taken care of something so important as there own trademarks. Sorry to sound harsh, but that omission is worse than incompetence, it is lunacy! We may or may not have success with that, but it was worth a shot (for whatever reason -- for some people it is important). In life the present and the future are a better focus than the past. New things require creation and like a good cook we had to have some of this and that to get the plat du jour to come out in a good way. We are still cooking and preparing our best recipes for the future.... It is a step by step process. Strategy is about maintaining a consistent vision in spite of life's obstacles. Success comes through sharing that vision with others and getting a large group of like-minded people cooperating together to achieve an objective. It seems things are moving the right way... :-D
4. Wayne, if you can change the name of this thread I would appreciate it. There are many great people working toward the improvement and success of the Pegasos and MorphOS. We cannot name everyone, but people like Gerald, Thomas, Ralph and Frank are the real engine behind the inspiration here, then there is Sharwin and Rakesh, The Crossbee guys (Emmanuel and Bernard in particular), the WebDev Team (Damien, Nate, Dave), Phoenix (greenboy, Gary, Clash and now Emil), and, and , and....there is a whole team of Core Developers for MorphOS (visit #morphos you will find a bunch of them there 24 hours a day seven days a week -- Emmanuel, David, Harry, CISC, Jacek, and many others) and a group of motivated young people working from the office in Paris (Sebastien, Bertrand, Nicholas B., another Nicolas S. and Nicolas D., Thierry, Mark, William). Plus, there are many others working as consultants or part time on the project, like Andre, David, Juergen, Andy, and all the crazy guys in Poland who have as a group have as much motivation as anyone! Then, there are all the motivated users...the Betatester mailing list has nearly 300 active subscribers (and many other readers...), guys like Magnetic, Kelly, Stefan and Bernie, Fabien, Jake, Treveur, Ron, Francisco....the list goes on and on and we just do not have the time in the moment to remember everyone (and some people just want to stay Anonymous! ...but there NOT cowards!). Know this: if the Pegasos and MorphOS is successful it will be because it WAS a COMMUNITY effort.
We will continue to do our best to support the Community and that means financially through salaries, license payments, advertising, etc., etc. -- anyway we can when we feel like it advances the overall effort.
Have to run. Too many things to do today. Please forgive us if we left off your name...when the Pegasos II is launched everyone will be mentioned by name! You can be SURE of that!.
Sincerely,
R&B :-)
