Interview with KMOS CEO Garry Hare (25 Mar 04)

[Hattig]

Wayne
It's certainly Bill Buck's fault that "the business card incident" was blown to such proportions, and I will openly admit and apologize for the fact that I was played as a pawn in respect to the card fiasco (though I did have the card for a short while).

Not your fault, you were misused by Bill Buck and what he said about the card which he obtained.

Garry's story rings true. He only printed a few - small scale, hence the poor quality, hence the people that said it was a photoshopped card printed out and then scanned in again! (the ones claiming it was a photoshop straight out were nuts, of course).

Shame on Bill Buck though. He knew that Hare wasn't the CEO of Amiga Inc, and that there was only an option of him becoming that. Yet he decided to play Wayne, and then the whole Amiga community, by claiming this. The whole point was to reduce trust in Amiga Inc, to waste their time having to deny it, and to presumably cover up issues that Genesi were having with hardware and money themselves.

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if AInc were a bit more open about their dealings [..] the whole business card thing would have been a total non-issue.

To be fair, Fleecy last year did say that they had approached Garry Hare, but nothing happened in the end. That is open, and it appears to collaborate today's interview.

That leaves the population of ANN and Amiga.org who kept on poking around the business card issue itself that actually made the whole thing into an issue. Wayne has said that he was used by a pawn by a certain individual to get this result. I think the person to blame about making the issue what is it is quite clear.

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Hare admits misrepresents himself at a show by handing out business cards proclaiming him to be Chairman and CEO of Amiga Inc when he wasn't even employed by them.

This is quite an ANN spin on events.

He gave a few cards to people. He explained the current situation to them regarding the CEO-ship.

One card gets into bbrv's hands after a lot of wheedling. bbrv is told by Garry Hare the situation. bbrv holds onto the card for a bit, and then generates the whole business card drama knowing completely the entire truth of the matter beforehand!

Yet you don't blame bbrv?! lol

whose fault would the resulting confusion be? Mine, for handing out cards or the person who takes the cards at face value and posts the news?

The person who didn't verify the details on the card, namely the person who takes the cards at face value. Sadly Wayne was misused and hence the card was misrepresented when he posted about it all that time ago.

[Hattig]

I don't think that there was any deception regarding the business card. The intent at the time was for Garry Hare to become CEO. The few people that got business cards directly were told that this was pending, not finalised. For whatever reason, it didn't actually happen.

Amiga Inc made it quite clear many times last year that Bill McEwan was CEO. That is all they had to say! It shows that the information on the cards is incorrect.

Put the blame on the person who misrepresented the business card to the community. Who claimed that it was the real state of play. Who abused everyone on ANN and here in the end.

The 'faking' of the card in my opinion is how it was represented by Bill Buck. The card captures a moment in time where the information on it was about to become true, pending anything that came up. Something came up, Hare didn't use any more of those cards. He didn't bet on a card getting to Bill Buck's hands, and even then and telling Bill Buck that the information was incorrect that Bill Buck would then claim on ANN and Amiga.org that the information on it was true, and then the resultant loss of trust against Amiga Inc, and the people that gave up on Amiga Inc because of that, etc.

Anyway, lets talk about other things in the interview. All those people that claimed that Amiga Inc, Bill McEwen, Fleecy were shareholders in KMOS - even stating it as fact, and that KMOS was an IP offloading company. Not a peep about the fact that isn't the case eh? Silence! It's deafening.

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Incorrect information on a Business Card is not Fraudulent! The intent was not to defraud anyone. Hence it isn't a fraud.

Still waiting for someone to give me a link to the court document where Bill McEwan says he isn't CEO though. People are all too willing to make these claims, but very reluctant to prove them.

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It amounts to impersonation of a company official, which may not be fraudulent but is certainly illegal.

Well go and sue him then for doing it.

Do you see Amiga Inc. complaining? No. They'd be the ones who would have to complain. If BBRV claimed to be CEO of Amiga Inc, I'm sure they would complain about his impersonation! They haven't complained about Garry Hare's mistake because it was a mistake.

THE WHOLE THING IS A NON-ISSUE.

If the blue camp want to take it further, then fine. Take him to court to get him to prove that what he said is true, and get the people to whom he gave cards to to collaborate his story.

Until then, YOU have no right or need to know.

It is down to Garry Hare's word against Bill Buck's. I know who I certainly don't believe out of these two!