Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 750 from 2003/2/14
From: Earth
Robin, that is not true. Worse, you ignore everything that has been and still is being done. The issue is that we don't want to pay what is being claimed - in fact we cannot pay it. We cannot afford to pay it. We don't have enough resources to produce boards and operate the Company *and* pay for MorphOS development. It is just a fact. Maybe, we should set up a PayPal account for all you folks who think our money grows on trees.
We would like to see MorphOS be very successful, but there is also another problem. The value and the opportunity for the result achieved is not congruent. At least 80% of our sales in 2004 were driven by Linux and not MorphOS. There is not enough money from sales to support MorphOS. Alternatively, we have had in the last few months a couple of opportunities to accept outside financing. We have chosen not to accept the offers that have been made. In one case, it was the people, in another, it boiled do to an issue of control. In the second case, they wanted nothing to do with MorphOS. They wanted us to focus exclusively on Linux and we are still not willing to do that. Remember, Robin, Genesi and bplan do not have "venture" investors. Genesi and bplan only have themselves to pay for everything.
The Pegasos has cost alot of money and effort to develop. So too, MorphOS. We have contributed financially and significantly to the MorphOS effort. We have provided all core developers with at least two machines since September of 2002 if not more. We gave the machines to them for free. In fact, we shipped another 50 FREE ODWs to developers in the last month. Many of these went to MorphOS developers.
Did you ever see this:
http://www.genesi.lu/morphos_statement.phpThe posting on MorphOS.net significantly damaged the biggest opportunity we had for MorphOS. We have a hard time accepting the information posted there. It is not accurate and it twists facts to satisfy the claimants. It is not based on any valid contractual agreement. We never told any of those people listed we would pay those amounts unless they achieved a certain documented result or specific conditions were met. Some of the claims made are complete shams. The individuals know it, they just figured it was a good time to participate in some Genesi-bashing because they know they will not get another cent from us. We won't be blackmailed and that is what that is.
MorphOS may have to finally go ahead on its own. If that happens we would be willing to bet that it will never gain the level of support we once provided. But, the whole story is not over yet. MorphOS won't die because of us. We are still very interested in its success.
With regret,
R&B
