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Re: Poseidon Registrations End
« on: August 05, 2003, 12:53:06 PM »
It looks like it is Michael Boehmer, highway/subway/algor producer, who is behind the Hodges' move.

Spider USB 2.0 is simply to too good, too fast and too inexpansive. E3B USB products cannot compete with it in any way. Stopping the Poseidon registration is the way how Boehmer and Hodges want to force users to buy their obsolete and overpiced USB 1.1 controllers.

Breaking the agreement is nothing for Chris Hodges, this is his usual behaviour, this guy has no ethics. See my case.
I'm a Spider user from the very beginning. I bought keys for Poseidon early October directly from Chris. I paid him 20 EUR for them. In March Chris Hodges unexpectedly switched off my keys, without even contacting me about it! It was just after I had told Boehmer in the Highway ML that there was an error in the Algor specs page.

Hodges did not give any specific reason for switching my keys, and in a Poseidon update, he wrote only this: 'Nevertheless, this is a free update for all registered and licensed users except for one. This "Rat" has to stick to the old version. Support is something bilateral.'

In public discussions Chris Hodges suggests that I have did some terrible things against him, which is clearly untrue.  He does not even respond to my public questions about the actual reason for his switching off my personal keys!

Now I am of the opinion that Chris Hodges is simply a dishonest and unreliable person. He does not care about users, and he makes his support dependent on his private whims.
 

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Re: Poseidon Registrations End
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2003, 02:47:07 PM »
@Jean-Francois

It seems that you do not know the facts at all.

1. This was Chris Hodges who approached Elbox with the proposal of co-operation.
Not Elbox, but CHRIS CHOSE DIRECT USER REGISTRATION. That was Hodges decision and Elbox accepted it. Read more about it here.

2. Hodges explained that in this way he received more money from each user than in case of the OEM licence.

3. Elbox clearly informs that Poseidon stack needs to be bought separately, see Spider page. Elbox USB 2.0 DRIVERS for Poseidon stack are enclosed with the Spider card.

Are you suggesting that Hodges wants now Elbox to buy the OEM licence, and CHRIS WOULD SEND MONEY BACK to all those Spider users who paid him?
No way, be serious, that is not what he is after. Chris wants to hamper sales of the Spider, because BOEHEMER ASKS HIM TO DO SO, that is all.
 

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Re: Poseidon Registrations End
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2003, 03:56:09 PM »
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>3. Elbox clearly informs that Poseidon stack needs to be bought separately, see Spider page. Elbox USB 2.0 DRIVERS for Poseidon stack are enclosed with the Spider card.

FALSE! : it is never stated on the pages that you MUST BUY poseidon apart to fully use the card! reread carrefully that pages.
Do have any problems with reading?

What in your opinion does the following point mean in the requirements to use the Spider card:
' • Poseidon stack (for Amithlon and Mediator based systems)'?
All Spider requirements you can find here.

And what was the meaning of the sentence:
'Registration of the Poseidon stack for Mediator users will be provided by Chris Hodges,'
which is in their website here?

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(i.e; the small part of code that's needed by Poseidon to recognize WHAT USB CARD is present in the Amiga).



Edited by Kees - Personal Insult

Titan has been writing drivers (only USB 1.1) to the Poseidon for over a year and their current status is mere 40%.
 

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Re: Poseidon Registrations End
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2003, 09:00:40 PM »
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Why don`t you give it a rest, everywhere I look I see you bad mouthing Chris Hodges, on the Highway Yahoo group, on ANN, on Amigaworld, you sound like a whining little kid who`s had his football taken away.
I am writing about facts between myself and Hodges. If this gives bad impression of Hodges, it only means that his behaviour has been improper. My personal experience shows that he is a dishonest person.

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I like the way all your "proof" of Chris and Micheal Boehemer comes from Elbox.. yeah, they`re nice and trustworthy aren`t they ?
 What I am writing about Hodges and Elbox comes from my own experience.

I bought keys for Poseidon with Hodges, and he erased them after a few months out of his whims. He even did not bother to write me an email in this issue.

I bought a number of items from Elbox. All of them perform excellent. I can always count on help from their technical support. Yes, they really are very helpful and friendly.

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( Remember the "We havent got RDB trashing code in our drivers " lie?)
As usually, the tale of people who do not have Elbox hardware.

When there is nothing you can complain about, you will make up stories like that of the RDB code. Do you remember when this affair broke out? November 2002, right after the WOASE fair, where Alan Redhouse of Eyetech informed that Pegasos boards (that just started selling) were based on defective ArticiaS chips. Something was needed to detract attention. Just read out who was so much caring about Mediator users at that time and you will find statements from the major Pegasos supporters. They preapred this issue and they were pretending to be most caring.

For Mediator users like me and many others, such actions are simple unimportant.

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It has NOTHING to do with restricting competing products, check the VGR site, you can see for yourself there are other cards (not made by E3B) that Poseidon supports.

LOL. These PCI USB cards on the VGR site are VAPUORWARE. The info about these Ganymede1, Io1, Callisto1 cards has been there for many months, but no-one offers them.

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It has nothing to do with money either..see your own quote about the fact that Chris gets LESS money selling it the OEM way.
It is about money and honesty of Chris Hodges.

Chris Hodges gets money directly from Spider users. Some people here suggest that Hodges would like to take the same money once again, now as the OEM licence.

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Dude, I hope Chris sues your sorry arse for the libel you`ve been spreading about.

What libel am I spreading about Hodges, man?
He switched off my keys without giving any reason. That's a fact. About suing: I have filed a complaint against Hodges with the German federation of consumers.

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And you wonder why he stopped your reg key??
Yes. I am very much amazed why Hodges switched off my registration keys for the Poseidon.

Hodges did not have any reason for this and he never stated any specific reason. He switched off my keys in March, right after I wrote in the Highway ML that I have found an error in the Algor specs. And this is a fact, either.

I have never wrote anything against Chris Hodges or his product, the Poseidon stack, before his switching off my keys.

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Anyway. why are you so annoyed, according to the Elbox Spider page, they`ve got their own USB stack almost ready to go.
I have already paid for the USB stack to Hodges and I do not want to pay for the stack second time.
 

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Re: Poseidon Registrations End
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2003, 09:43:08 PM »
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And as for "Rat" aka "Jacek" aka "Tjaoz": I did give you my reasons. Read them up in the mailing list (if you are able to read).
A LIE.
Chris, you have never given any specific reason for your switching off my keys. You only wrote that you had had some vague reasons, but you never stated them. You are a liar, Chris, you know it very well.

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But on each new posting of yours you give me more and more reasons and confirm that my decision was right. You live next door to Elbox.  
What are you writing, Chris!?
You have switched off my keys in March 2003 as in August 2003 you got a confirmation that your decision was ok? Something is very bad with your head!

So what that I live in the same city as Elbox has its office? Was it the reason for you to switch off my keys for Poseidon, for which I paid you?

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You use every single moment of your life to promote their products
I'm an Elbox supporter. In my opinion their products are great. They respect each one of their users. They are very supportive. In my opinion, this is the only real professional company in the Amiga market.

I am a free person and i can write things that reflect my feelings.

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and bash competitors.

I wrote several times that USB 1.1 is obsolete, which is a commonly known fact. Nothing to do with bashing anybody.

Just look at yourself. Every time, you Chris are trying to write bad things about Elbox products. You have suggested in public many times that the price for Spider USB 2.0 is too high. That's so funny, because I have never seen you write that E3B cards are too expensive. And they are much more expensive than Spider, although these are only USB 1.1 controllers.

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As for me, I don't see any reasons to respond to you any further. Simply because there is no reason in your head.
I do not expect any response from you, Chris. For several months, I have been asking you about reasons for your switching off my keys. Nothing, you are not responding. You are only writing that you had some terrible reasons. And you are not responding, because you have nothing to say. You simply switched off my keys after I had written about error info in the Algor specs. Now it is clear.

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You keep repeating the same things over and over again, purposely omitting other important information and statements. Give it a rest, nobody wants to hear it anymore.
Why are you talking on behalf of others? How do you know what people would like to read about? Just speak for yourself, please. For a liar like you, making others aware of truth about you might not be so good.

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To all: You see, I'm doing my software for fun. The moment it stops to be fun, I'll bail out. Normally, this has got nothing to do with the users,
Good that you are writing software for fun. Still, remember that when you take money for using this software, since that moment you are bound with the same regulations which apply to any seller. You cannot tell your client that you have taken money from him for fun, and that you switch off his keys.

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But ceasing the registration is the only means I've got. I cannot afford to sue Elbox. At this point, I'd rather would.
All your attacks and false statements against Elbox are so much telling about you. Elbox always kindly responds to your attacks. If I were them, I would be more definite.

If anybody missed Hodges last message against Elbox, it is here. And here is the response from Elbox.
From these messages it is clear that how easily Hodges make false statements against Elbox, with no grounds for them. That's slander.

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This has got nothing to do with Michael Boehmer. I'm an indivually thinking entity, not attached like a hunchback to some other person.
 
Really?
So how would you explain the fact that you switched off my Poseidon keys right after I noticed false information in the Algor specs and wrote about it in the Highway ML? This confirms Michael Boehmer having impact on your behaviour.
 

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Re: Poseidon Registrations End
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2003, 09:46:57 PM »
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Re: Poseidon Registrations End
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2003, 09:09:10 AM »
Dear Kees,

I was astonished to see that you have removed all my yesterday's responses to the messages by Chris Hodges/platon42, to the message by Jean-François/voxel and to the message by Kaminari.

To remind you the posts I am writing about, here is the backup of this discussion from yesterday at 23:06 CET, when I sent my last post.

I cannot understand why you have removed my message to Jean-François/voxel, because my post only included indication of elementary erroneous information which Jean-François/voxel wrote about the Spider website. Could you explain please why my response to this message was removed and why you have marked it 'personal insults?' The post by Jean-François/voxel included complete misinformation, so why is a response to it not welcome by you?

I cannot understand why you have removed my message to Kaminari, whom I asked whom he was representing by his writing: 'And our personal experience tells us that you're a troll.'

In my messages to Chris Hodges I clearly and reliably present facts from Chris' behaviour against myself, that is his client. Chris Hodges is earning money in the Amiga market. Persons like him have the same obligations like any other business company. However, what Chris is doing to his clients, cannot be included in any civilised principles.

When Chris Hodges yesterday sent me away to a therapist, you did not remove his message. When Chris Hodges insulted me and others, you were tolerating his behaviour, and when I responded to his posts, you simply removed all my answers. Could you explain why?

When Chris Hodges insulted me some time ago in Amiga.org (in this thread), twisting my name, none of the moderators reacted. Could you explain why?

Chris Hodges writes to Ikir in this thread: 'Back to elementary school please.'
You have left this text by Chris and you removed my response to this insult. Could you explain why you removed only my response?

Is Chris Hodges entitled to offending people, but responding to his insulting posts is not allowed?

My impression is that you removed my responses when I started asking Chris questions, with which he cannot feel comfortable. There is no any reason why he could have switched off my keys, because I had never written anything against him beforehand. Thus he cannot give any links to prove his point.

Would it be wrong if people reading amiga.org learned who Hodges really is? Is it all right that amiga.org attempts to hide the real behaviour of Chris Hodges?

Is showing unethical behaviour of Chris Hodges against users of the Poseidon stack and against Elbox something that you would like to hide before the readers of Amiga.org?

Best regards,

Jacek Szczurek