No more MorphOS for Pegasos? :-(

[Argo]

True, Morphos was in development way before Genesi. It started out alittle after AROS, about 10 years ago as an idea that grew. Genesi came along, promised money to the developers which would allow them more time to work on Morphos, not to mention new members to the dev team attracted by the money. With that money gone, the developers in it for the money are going to be pissed and rightly so. Development will probably continue, but at it's pre-Genesi pace as it returns to a pure volunteer venture. Oh, there will be some disruption in development til all of this settles out. Stuff pulled out of CVS by the disgruntled unpaid developers, parts will have to be rewritten, etc.
Continued development means no company support and marketing anymore, no dedicated hardware platform, and a few other benefits they had with Genesi. That is assuming that this all results in all present and future ties with Genesi being cut. Guess that depends on who controls Morphos development. I assume Ralph Schmitt. That would put the ball in his court. I can't see him giving up on his project, even though it's going to take a hell of a hit. I just wouldn't expect 1.5 anytime soon.
Those 4 developers, that we know of so far, are out collectively to the tune of about $100,000. That's not an OOPs. Guess that explains the face change on the Morphos.net website awhile back.

[Argo]

Maybe they have some vague hope of getting paid at least some money or installments. This all could be some odd form of negotiations. Try to force Genesi's hand by going to the public. Risky, could get nasty.
We really don't know much about this exact situation. Maybe they have talked to lawyers, maybe they haven't. With over a year of not being paid, something must have been going on. We just don't know the whole story, probably never will.
You're right, they should all be in court. A nice class action lawsuit of all the unpaid Genesi employees and contract employees, but lawyers cost money and when you haven't been paid tens of thousands of dollars, you probably don't have alot a spare cash. Not to mention Genesi's books are probably in the Red and I bet Buck has is net worth arranged to show as a much smaller amount than it truely is. I'm not sure how his net worth would facter in anywhere. I've never been able to figure out how all his business ventures are related and noone has been able to explain it(at least not the same way backed up with facts). It all seems kind of shady to me.
You're right, all of this is between Genesi and those with grevances against them. What should be more of a concern to us, the community, is how will this affect Morphos. Buck has already mentioned components being removed and some being changed out. Morphos 1.5 looks to being delayed long enough and modified as a result of this to be called Morphos II.
We'll just have to wait and see! Psst! Pass the popcorn.