Dave Haynie on MOS (cross posted from ANN) -old post referenced

[bhoggett]

@Jose

Not really interesting, no. This is just a two year old quote about a 7 year old rumour that Mike Bouma dregded up in what looks like the start of another FUD offensive on behalf of Amiga Inc.

Two things to bear in mind:

(a) the person responsible for Amiga source code reaching all sorts of people was Petro, who was an Amiga employee at that time.  It is unclear under what conditions he revealed or gave away the source code under, what permissions he gave to the recipients by doing so, and if he had the authority to do what he did in the first place.

(b) there is no evidence the code Dave Haynie is referring to was ever a part of MorphOS in any way.

All this really means is that Dave made a personal comment about his feelings regarding Ralph & Co, in a forum in which the audience is heavily prejudiced against Ralph & Co in the first place.  There is no real evidence that Ralph knowingly did anything wrong at all.

[bhoggett]

@downix

That's a fair comment, but does anybody really know what Petro did and when? It's not like he produced any documentation recording what he did.

[bhoggett]

@red

Lock it anyway. For a thread based on blatant FUD and ancient out-of-context quotes, the Red Trolls have got more than enough publicity out of it already.

I'd love to post some Gary Peake quotes from the same mailing list, just to watch Bouma and his mob squirm trying to explain them away.
 :-P

...but I won't, because I don't want to sink to their level.
 :-x