> Either splitting hairs or your grasp of english is not as good as I thought.

Maybe the latter. I leave that for others to decide.

> Bill Buck is not a hardware designer AFAIK.

That's obviously not what I'm talking about. I was referring to the chronology, i.e. that the involvement of the Genesi forerunner Thendic France started only when the Pegasos I design was completed. Genesi was involved when the Pegasos II was designed. This doesn't imply that Bill Buck had a hand in routing its board components, does it?

> DCE didn't run a charity.

DCE wasn't paid for the manufacturing but only for the lease of the mounting machines. It was bplan staff who operated them.