Genesi: More Details about STBs, Pegasos I, and OS4

[BlackMonk]

I'm actually somewhat offended that this lunatic is associating himself with West Point.  You don't learn business practices in WP, what relevence does military training have?  He learned how to be an engineer and program Fortran on punch cards, so what?  That only shows that his formal training way back when is completely out of date when compared to current programming practices.  He even has the audacity to imply that he was an Army Ranger--no mention of Georgia?  And resigned his commission instead of retired?  The hell?  Why phrase it like that?

My father also graduated from West Point and also was trained on punch cards.  The difference is that he kept up with the discipline and teaches at DAU ( http://www.dau.mil ) now as a retired LTC.

His entire "background" spcheal was nothing more than a bit of age elitism, it appears.  West Point generally tries to instill honor and integrity.  Bill Buck apparently didn't pay attention to those values either through the school or his time in the military as shown by his indirect encouragement of piracy and all this stupid public mudslinging.

Ok, so Ben might not be a perfect angel, either, but Bill's association of himself with West Point is like spitting in the eyes of all the decent men and women in the armed forces.  It's insulting.  Bill Buck tries to make himself seem like some type of Renaissance Man and intellectual but Christ, he destroys that everytime he writes like a non-native English speaker.  I know Scandanavians/Europeans who aren't even in university/college yet who write better than that.

And this is supposed to be representative of a West Point graduate?  For those who keep making the snide, "well, it must be a military tactic, eh Bill?" please keep in mind that he's not representitive of what 1) most US Army officers should be and 2) what most US Army officers ARE.

I'm not even in the military (though my brother, father, his two sisters and one of their husbands, one of my mother's sisters, and both grandfathers are/were) and I'm taking offense.  It pains me to think that someone like my father would be lumped into the same group as someone like Bill Buck.

I just want to say to those who think he is in some shape or form a representitive of US military officer integrity/honor/ethics--he's not.  He's a disgrace.  I'm glad he was decomissioned (oh, sorry, he "resigned his commission" before sticking with things long enough to retire, I guess) as his presence in the US Army would only drag them down.

[BlackMonk]

For the record, I have no vested interest in favoring Bill Buck over Ben whatever-his-name-is.  All I've seen from Bill Buck has been insane ramblings and outlandish accusations.  I'm primarily a PC user who has never owned an Amiga in my life.  I hang around here to see about possibly getting an Amiga when I have some spare cash.

As a result, I somewhat follow the A1/AOS4 and Pegasos/MOS debates just to see if there's anything solid to go on instead of fluff and flamewars.

I haven't said anything either pro or con about either of these personalities before but after Bill Buck's statements lauding his past, I could not help myself.

Considering the past that he lauded and the airs he's put on, I find him a disgrace.  He's shown remarkably little tact and certainly no honor or integrity in his stupid little public jabs.  It's a disgrace that he chooses to make sure everyone knows his past, in detail, as if it somehow makes him a better person.  It's a disgrace that he's saying, "look, I'm the product of a West Point education!" (more or less)

I know what Amiga hardware/software solution I will NOT be pursuing in the future.  Yes, maybe the Pegasos/MOS solution will be faster or more stable or have more features, but I cannot support someone of such questionable character.  Maybe Ben hides his pettiness better, I don't know.  I don't care.  Why?  Because Bill Buck relishes the attention he gets.  Maybe he's going with the "any publicity is good publicity" theory but all he's done, with me at least, is tarnish the integrity and reputation of the products he is associated with.

It's like that company, Elbox? that put that crap in their drivers that disabled your hard drive or some such.  Maybe their products are great besides that little incident, but that's a breach of trust that many people won't soon forget.  For this case, it's one small part of Pegasos/MOS that's souring me to the whole thing.

I suppose other people enjoy seeing his antics.  Hey, more power to ya.  I, for one, don't--especially coming from a "West Point graduate".

[BlackMonk]

It's the amiga users who get screwed here, not Amiga Inc not Hyperion not Genesi.

You know, as someone who's outside of the Amiga community and only looks in from time to time, that's the main conclusion I've come to as well.  It sucks.  I mean, I read the Amiga history on the website that has it all listed and whatnot and I get kind of bummed out.  That y'all have made it this far is amazing, truth be told.

I do honestly hope things look up in the future.