ksk wrote:
@Rogue
The community is fed up with broken promises.
Also AmigaOS4 schedule has failed several times and people are very fed up with that too.
I am fed up with insults, lies, false rumours. Don't pretend that there is only one side that is always to take the blame.
My only promise so far has been that I, like everyone else in the team, am doing my best to get the job done. So far I consider myself, like everyone else in the team, in compliance with that promise.
If you think that this is easy for us, you are completely off the mark. We have to make sure that we can survive, and I'm sorry to say it but I, myself, come first, and the community second.
I need to cope with my personal living, and my personal bills. The community is not going to pay them. Until such time, I can only try to do my best, but everything has limits.
Also I am fed up with lies and tired of waiting. Please be open in the communication towards the community.
Are you implying that
I am lying? You know that release dates are estimates. I invite you to look around in the IT business for release dates that have actually been kept.
Deliver a beta/BETATESTER ASAP rather than forever trying reach perfection on one go...
Just for your info, there is a team of 70 beta testers already. Just because person X or person Y isn't part of it doesn't mean there isn't. We are not going to conduct a public beta test, if that is what you mean, and there will only be a final product. Just because there is a public MorphOS beta version doesn't dictate that we have to do the same. We won't.
As to "trying to reach perfection", we are trying to reach a certain degree of it, because otherwise certain people I know will start bitching again. It will be "oh, this is all they came up after over one year". All of us believe in that project, and when we finally get it out, we will be saying "this is our project, and yes we're proud of it".
I am sorry, I don't make up release dates. And the cold hard fact is that estimating release dates is more of a gamble than anything else, and most certainly so in the Amiga market, a market that is not able to sustain itself at the moment. The result is that we
have to look for other sources of income. Yes, this does delay things. No, they never came to a complete halt because there is always at least one of the core team working full time on it.
Most of all it doesn't give anyone the right to proclaim that OS 4 will not be out this year. That is something that can only be said on December 31st, not a second earlier.
Most of all it doesn't give anyone the right to suggest that there is a bunch of idiots working on the project, like Joanna tried to make it appear.
Most of all it doesn't give certain people the right to suggest that another company would have done better. Chances are that another company would have contracted similar people. mostly because they are the best you can get on the Amiga market.
Now you know what
I am fed up with.
