Wired News: 2003 Vaporware Awards

[Rogue]

Then again, we may learn later the real truth.

Why not state directly that we are a bunch of liars? At least it would spare you the hassle of trying to say something that sounds like a defence.

[Rogue]

In generally, I don't understand why people are suddenly so concerned about OS4 being on that list

Me neither. To be honest, I am not concerned at all about being on that list. I am concerned about the usual comments I read.. Mostly because the comments come from people that have declared a vested non-interest in OS 4 in the past but cry out loudest for not being out, instead of being happy that their chosen OS is available.  They rather prefer to p*** on the other people's guarden.

*That* is what I am concerned about.

But then, don't listen to me. KennyR says I'm a loon.

[Rogue]

My bad, Duke Nukem beat us out We did get more votes then the RadioShark...

We can still try if we can beat Half-Life 2...

[Rogue]

Add in the fact that none of the developers on OS4 have any OS experience,

Operating Systems was one of the topics I studied at university.

OTOH, games programming wasn't.

[Rogue]

Then would you agree or not that OS development is best measured in terms of years rather than months?

It depends. I'd rather say "man-years". It always depends on where you start off, and surely we didn't start off at zero.

[Rogue]

Why not check first what you told Ben Yoris what he
is a few months back on ann.lu?

I knew that this would come back at one point.  Yes he was right and I was wrong. I was being over-optimistic, plus I didn't forsee some trouble that would strike in the course of 2003. Don't tell me he spoke out of technical knowledge - he just wanted to contradict a dealer on a french forum.

Why did he say anything? Didn't he step down as Hyperion PR before that? Or did he? Rather confusing, don't you think? "Fired" by Hyperion in spite of having stepped down before?

The Ben Yoris affair was a bit different, though. I've stated this elsewhere, I didn't want to drag it into public again, but you may follow the link that DaveP posted if you wish.

[Rogue]

"Why not state directly that [he is] liar?

I already said that he was right and I was wrong.

It's even worse. I don't think you read that posting I did on AW.net, otherwise you would know what happened. And I didn't even tell everything there.

So simply shut up. You don't have any idea what you are talking about.

@DaveP:

Give it up, man. He's not interested in hearing it. It doesn't fit his agenda.