Theo de Raadt says Pegasos Bad

[KennyR]

Ooh, suspicious single post poster with possible anti-Genesi material. I wonder if I know who you are... But the link seems genuine enough, so I'll bite.

Theo is gravely mistaken, and I'm left wondering how he managed to come to such a strange backwards conclusion... Or why he's suddenly so hostile to a platform he doesn't know, when he represents an OS that will supposedly run on anything. Does he know something we don't? Or is such arrogance typical of BSD advocates?

If about 1400 boards is "almost none", then he is right with one statement at least, but it's obvious that he's very wrong that NO boards are in existence, since I'm using one now, and there are almost now as many G4 machines as there are G3 ones.

As for smoke and mirrors investment, if giving a away free boards to build a community and operating at quite a serious loss to woo the Amiga community is some kind of con game, Genesi aren't very good at it: aren't con games supposed to make money?

[KennyR]

Sorry Jonathan, it's just that some people like to restart old issues as anonymous posters.

I'm not attacking you. ;-) I appreciate knowing about this, even if I don't like what I read.  I don't understand Theo's hostility, and I want to understand it. If that means uncovering things I don't like then that's how it's gonna have to be. Anyway, I hope the issue with Theo can be resolved soon, possibly by the baseball bat method. (Kidding )

I think that BSD does actually run on Pegasos though, even Peg-1. I have a friend who has it running.

[KennyR]

Batman wrote:
BTW, badmouthing a very well known and competent person like Theo is a very very bad way of defending Genesi/Pegasos.

Who's badmouthing Theo here? Nobody I can see. According to what Hooligan (NOT magnetic :-P) posted he was asked to resign for being rude. Nobody here is badmouthing Theo, and more to the point nobody here is badmouthing him to defend Genesi or Pegasos.

So I'm afraid the evil Genesi followers can't be blamed for this one, sir.

[KennyR]

Basic summary of this thread:

Pegasos is crap, sucks, Genesi are con artists, etc.

Uhm, most of that isn't true. Why so hostile?

This guy seems to be just basically rude and not very nice, and rants like this a lot, so maybe that's why. (Presents an earlier instance of when Theo was punished for his behaviour)

Stop badmouthing this guy, you Genesi troll!

He's trolling and not presenting any facts, I'm just pointing it out.

The fact you try to defend Genesi against Theo's factless trolling means you are a blue troll, so I don't need to listen. You're a troll.

That's more or less how it's going. Hell, us so-called "blue trolls" are even agreeing on many points! There's no angry protectionism or blind apologism here. Try posting criticism of the A1 and see if you'll get that.

(Apologies to Magnetic, for dragging him into this thread. ;-))

[KennyR]

Ah crap, you're right. It's the butterfly avatar's fault! Apologes to Magnetic, he has nothing to do with this thread. :inquisitive:

[KennyR]

Restore2003 wrote:
You may kick me for this, but i think the pegasos/Morphos has destroyed the the rest of the community that was left

You are wrong. If it wasn't Pegasos, it would be UAE or AROS or Amithlon or Linux or Windows or Mac. MorphOS isn't the cause of the destruction of the community, just a symptom. That's what happens when you don't supply the hardware or software people want, and that's why the possible OS4 userbase has now shrunk to a tiny size. Not Pegasos. If AInc had done their job properly no-one would even care about it.

That's what life is like. If you fart around and don't do what you're supposed to, someone else will. Tough luck.

[KennyR]

No Batman, I'm not sure. I'm goddamn certain.