Interview with KMOS CEO Garry Hare (25 Mar 04)

[Waccoon]

Reflect:  A business card doesn't constitute a legal ID card

My feelings exactly.  Hare made a mistake, passing out a prototype card saying, "hey, lookit!"  Some people just got over-excited and jumped to conclusions.  That happens a lot with Amiga.  An error, but saying it is fraud or criminal is a stretch.  Still, it doesn't make much sense of McEwen saying in court that he was NOT CEO, as T_Bone points out (I don't follow court drama, so I don't know the truth to that).  Given how Amiga, Inc. has handled things since day one, I wouldn't be surprised if McEwen was taking advantage of the situation.  I'll only care if Amiga actually releases something, and the courts are still sniffing about and Amiga people are still waiting for their "free" stuff.

Frankly, I'm just sick of the business card issue.    There's not a doubt that Hare made a mistake, and he'll have to live with it.  At least we have his side of the story, now.

I still intend to bash Amiga, Inc. about the coupons, though.  That will never cease to be fun.    At least it's amusing to know I (technically) already own OS4, even if I don't have hardware on which to run it.  ;-)

Amiga Inc, KMOS are IT companies, therefore website IS IMPORTANT.

When it's time... when it's time.

Because, you know, I thought websites were about content, not linking to other sites.

He's a Business Man, not even close to being Joe Hacker CEO.

Leave the hacking to those who can hack it.  One only hopes that a true manager steps out of the way and gives his team credit for intelligence now and then.  Seeing how Mehdi Ali is now my dad's boss (no, really), the company is in serious financial trouble, and he might well lose his job before the year is out, I'll be pleased to see *any* CEO in charge of Amiga technology that knows buisiness but lets engineers do their work in peace.

I don't know what people hate about suits, anyway.  I love to dress up when going to work!

[Waccoon]

Only a few cards were passed out.  I doubt Mr. Hare thought it would be such a big issue.  He made a personal mistake.  LEAVE IT AT THAT.  Rather than {bleep} about the cards some more, could we possibly talk more about this "business partnership" between KMOS and Hyperion, and what the existing, tiny Amiga community expects for a product, so maybe, possibly, they can actually release something?

If KMOS is just a shell game for covering Amiga's legal woes, well, that's not going to affect me, since I don't buy "coupons" and such crap.  I consider my $100 for the Party Pack to be a wasted investment, so I'm just watching for product demonstrations.  In the meantime, I'll continue to use Win2K, learn Linux and PHP, and spew out a few ideas and features I'd like to see in a next-generation OS, like a REAL scripting language, a brand new quarantine-based security model that puts JAVA to shame, and a complete, competent GUI toolkit "out of the box".  These are the things that should be commonplace on PCs, but are either done very, very wrong, or are non-existent.  GUIs, in particular, are a huge pain in the butt.  I'd really love to write my own front-ends to command-line programs without having to learn C++, or move to Java, which offeres a terrible user interface and belittles the GUI resources of the host OS.

Speaking of scripting languages, whatever happened to SHEEP?  Will it be in OS4, is it intended for DE, or is it no more?

It is NOT Gary Hare we should be chastising

Has anyone considered the possibility that Mr. Hare won't BOTHER with a second interview, after the crap that has been thrown around in this thread?

Remaining silent while watching others being called liars, when you know the truth is right up there in the top 3 on the stone tablets.

I have to admit, that asking Amiga, Inc. to remain silent for legal reasons, doesn't quite cut it.  There had to be more going on here.  But, since when has silence been out of the ordinary for Amiga, Inc.?  It's been four damn years since they "aquired" the name and they've publicly announced squat.