Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30/03)

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Based on questions submitted by our visitors, Kees had the opportunity to interview Genesi SARL's Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco on the future of their company and product lines.  

Read it here

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@Marktime,

Don't feed the trolls, even if you're hungry    Remember, I will defend Bill the exact way I tried to defend Ben in his interview.

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RJ Mical wrote us last week about a project he and Dave Needle are working on and how that might fit in with what we are doing. Dave Haynie posts weekly at Phoenix, often daily, and do not be surprised if you see Carl around again soon.

Hypothetical question for the AInc fanboys.

If RJ Mical, Dave Haynie and Carl Sassenrath all worked on the next version of MorphOS and the Pegasos boards.  What would be more "Amiga"? The AmigaOne+OS4 or the Pegasos+MorphOS? ;-)

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OS4... Just because they worked on the original doesn't make everything they touch an Amiga, no more than having Nolan Bushnel there would make it an Atari.

I absolutely agree with that, but want you to extend it in every direction.  To a lot of people, Carl and Dave's projects would be 10,000 times more "Amiga" than those of a truck driver, ex-marine, and guy with some sheep weird sheep fetish.

I don't say this to be trollish, or to start an argument.  I say this to bring up the point that this eternal argument TOTALLY depends on your perspective.  

It truly reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode where "Cat" found out he was a god to the other hats.  1/2 of which thought the hats should be red, 1/2 who thought they should be blue.  My, how appropriate...  

The problem is, much like us, the "cats" on Red Dwarf ended up killing each other off with holy wars.

My point?  Oh yeah, I almost forgot...  Relax.  Realize that while we do have MULTIPLE alternatives to the Classic Amiga, there is no winning any argument against one or the other.  Hell, buy both hats, or at least play with both (when the red hat is available) THEN make up your own minds.  Taking such a firm stance, ready to fight to the death on a product that we haven't even seen yet is sadly laughable.

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@jahc

I'm looking for that quote now, so if I find it, I'll be glad to share it.  I do not EVER recall seeing BBRV saying that the G3 would be faster than the G4.  I believe this has been paraphased into myth, beyond recognizability by those with agendas.

Anyone, please feel free to share the link if I can find it, but I believe BBRV's ORIGINAL quote was something like "the Pegasos II with a G3 chip based on the new Marvell chip will be faster in a lot of ways than the G4 chip on an older Articia-based motherboard."  

I am of course paraphrasing, and I desperately want to find the original quote, and I say again, I might be incorrect in what was said, but that's what *I* recall seeing him say.  I remember it because my first thought was "cool!".

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@jahc

Ok, I stand partially corrected, but you've answered your own question as well. :-)  Since there's no way for us mere mortals to ever test the speed of an original Teron board to an April2 Pegasos, I guess we'll never know....  Doesn't really matter anyway, because as I said, he NEVER said that "a G3 is faster than a G4" (which is what most claim was said).

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People need to get out of the past and look at the present and future.

I would agree with this, except that there are things which have happened, and are STILL happening which Amiga Inc has done which very badly damaged the Amiga community in the past.  Let's be honest here.  We, as a community, do not really know Bill McEwen, Bill Buck, Raquel Velasco, Fleecy Moss, Gary Peake, or any of the current "leaders of the pack".  

We -- as a community -- can only judge these people (and companies) on what we perceive that they've done to us as a community versus their ability to do what they've promised.  The past is a very crucial part of how we've ended up here today and is never, ever to be discounted.

So, I think it would be correct to say that we need to study the past, to learn from the mistakes that we all know have happened and to avoid allowing us to be taken in by the same mistakes in the future.  At the same time, we cannot cry over spilt milk, or live in the past.

With this community and even moreso in this business, your words are your bond.  They are a promise.  It was that way, even when Commodore was at it's peak.  So far the odds of survival based on the weight of words versus action are stacked very, very strongly against the "home team".

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This whole thing to me, regarding BBRV's earlier g3/g4 comment only goes to prove that EVERYONE here apparently reads different things into the same text.  So far, it's been a perfect example of one piece of text, written by one person, that we have at least four different interpretations by four different people.

It's simply amazing to watch.

By the way Bill/Raquel, thanks for taking time to speak to Kees (and by way, the site members) here at Amiga.org.