Elbox's Spider II and Amithlon - caveat

[Kronos]

tjaoz wrote:
The only thing causing my reservations is the way that guy from Poseidon treats his clients.

Wow !! What have YOU been smoking ??

Chris has written Poseidon primarly for the use in MorphOS.

When e3b "lost" the old stack-provider for their cards he stepped
in and both sides came to an OEM-agreement.

Then came Elbox and tried top change the rules of an previously
agreed OEM-deal, leaving Chris pretty much in the cold.

But that wasn't enough, Elbox also put ILLEGAL code into their
driver and accused Chriswhen they got caught with it.

As an result Chris made it quite clear that he would not
cooperate with Elbox anymore.

So you have to blame Elbox for any trouble that may arrise from this.

About Spieder/Amithlon:

How does a normal user know that he needs a special non-public
driver for a HW that is on sale to norma users ?

It was Elbox duty to either provide those drivers, or to make
it 100% clear that one has to get some special files beforehand.

[Kronos]

While I have heard of several complaints about Elbox refusing
to give updates to "critical" costumers, this is the 1st time
I heard it about Chris.

Yes I also think that Elbox has some good HW, but their way
of doing buisness sucks.

Remeber the probs they had with CGX,P96 and W3D ?

Do you really think that in all these cases (plus now
Poseidon) it was just coincident that those could get an
agreement with other HW-suppliers, but not with Elbox ?

What REAL use is the USB2-controller on the Spider ?

How much is th REAL transferrate. Not some theorhy of what
it could be if it would be used with the Shark ?

So no, I don't own a Mediator or Spider, as I prefer to buy
my HW from people who pay and respect those who have written
the drivers for that HW.