Poster: lempkee Date: 2003/8/21 13:31:42
dammy: yes/no ...
the whole thing is , sure DE should be on every plattform around, thats what it was intended for (tao).
Well, we can agree that the object for Amiga Inc is to get DEad to everything possible, that includes the Pegasos. Sales = profit.
but as we know that never happened , but as soon
as they have DE (IF) on pegasos , genesi will yet again USE the amiga name and that aint always good, for many reasons.
If you step away from the emotional kneejerk reaction of Genesi being (which they are) a DEad license holder, and look at it with a business mind, it's a good thing. If you can hold your nose while M$ defiles the Amiga name buy pushing Amiga DEad (which REALLY grates on my nerves), you should be welcoming a fellow Amiga Community member of Genesi to push sales. Even better if Amiga Inc can get royalities off every Peg produced. MIght suck for EyeTech, but they could even rebadge a pegasus so they are not out of the picture entirely. But that isn't Amiga Inc's concern, profit and survival is.
If I was Bill M at this moment and Bill B wanted to deal and buy say, 250,000 USD worth WB disks and would put DEad on every Peg2 and all follow on Peg, I'd buy the man alot of beers regardless on how much I loath someone. That means payoff of old employees and some cash left over for cellphone bills, and maybe a morgage payment or two. If the two million comes from M$ in a few months and I have royalities flowing in from Genesi, it's party time.
The point I'm trying to make with the above, real business men deal with eachother if it's to benefit their companies, regardless of their personal dislikes. Unfortunetly, it appears that Bill McEwen is once again showing that a good and rational business, he ain't.
Dammy
