Hello.
As I've been asked to do so, and also for I hate being lied at,
I want to clarify things. I left the Morphos team because my work was
finished there. And also.. Here's my story. Of course, it'll be ruined
by fanatics everywhere, but please consider that I try to tell the
facts as straigt as I can.
Someone from the Morphos team, in early 2002, asked me if I wanted to be
part of something I've had hardly hear about before : Morphos. Of course
I took it as the chance of my life and accepted gratefully.
I began "working" for morphos in april 2002. At that time i had no ppc and
it took me 6 months to afford a ppc and bvision for my A1200 in order to be
compatible.. My real work started in october 2002 for morphos , as a GUI
graphist mostly, although I did many things alongside. Just like every
Morphos fan out there I suppose. Apart from Morphos became my life.
In between, bbrv came and offered us to finance the project. As he had
already some bad reputation in France, I couldn't resist to comment about
the choice, but I had no responsability in Morphos whatsoever, so I
thought... Who cares ?
The 15 may 2003, i've been taling with bill buck and told him i had no
work to the question 'what are you doing as a living?'. He wasn't
interested by my graphician skills, but since i had Spanish language and
website coding knowledges, he offered me money or a contract if I could
come up with a full spanish website for the 17 may.
There was some big investment made by the spanish government into linux
boards and applications, and he wanted to benefit from these. The 17 may,
the site was ready. Written from scratch, without any website builder or
php engine.
Pleae note : bbrv asked me not to mention amiga, for it could have been
dangerous to gather these spanish funds.
Between may and until the beginning of august 2003, I had no news from
the contract/money, but one offer of 500 francs (75 euro) wich i found
ridiculous at that time provided the amount of work me and my friends,
Juan Marcos, Doraemon and others, translators, writers, a real website
team did. I removed my stuff from the morphos 'secret' FTP as a kind of
warning, since nobody cared, and most thought I was boring to ask for
stuff i was promised. I closed the website too. bbrv had money at that
time, and i couldn't understand why he never signed or offered anything
better than 500 F.. I put back the site a day or two after. Along with
my Artwork. And it had a benefit ;
Mid august : I received an antidated contract for july, august and
september. I had to give back 900 euro to the unemployment help
provided my work officially started in july. My contract implied 1000
euro per month. I had more when I was working as ruling my marine shop,
but the temptation to work in the amiga world was too strong.
This contract was a reward for the Pegasos España website, and it was
supposed to be nothing more. But bbrv came back and we talked about a
japanese website and a portugese website. I can't recall the reasons
now, but i'm sure there was some good ones. bbrv is a smart man.
End of july, bbrv leaves France for USA.
Finally I started to work on some Portugese website in september'03,
and some PHP web engine in order to automatise the website creation.
At the end of september, bbrv told me that he kept me in the company.
During september and october, no money was wired. bbrv used to pop and
tell us it was nothing big, that Pretory USA had problems to wire the
funds to Thendic.
In mid november, we received the money for september. Not much, 1000
euro. I started to eat my economies to afford a car.
At the end of November I was told by Thierry Velasco, that ruled Thendic
France, that i had a contract (?!) for the months of October and November.
I said that i wasn't aware such thing and that I never received the
contract.
When no contract is being etablished in France you automatically enter a
long time worker state, so I wasn't afraid and was pretty confident in
bbrv and thierry velasco. He told me that i would receive the contracts
soon, along with new contracts for december and onwards. I thought well,
okay, it's no big deal. I tend to prefer short term conotracts, to keep
my freedom.
December 2003, release of Pegasos Japan. A full PHP driven, website,
with forums and every necessary feature for a usergroup, all in japanese,
based on my web engine. Translated by a nice man, that left the community
since then, unpaid, too. He only wanted a board.
In december 2003, Thierry Velasco started to be really vulgar in Paris
offices. He told everyone that I would never receive my contracts, and
also told in front of several persons that we only were a bunch of ass
hair. You cut one, there's another one growing behind. I've been told the
stories by three different people at different times. The same story.
I pass the details.
The 23 of december, bbrv came by and told us the money we were awaiting for
october, november and december was wired. It was a great day, I afforded
everything for my family and my gf. The 25 i received my Pegasos 2,
before everyone. Another great day. My new version of the pegasos España
website was almost ready for release and betatested. Then someone from
the offices in Paris, some Mos related guy, called me the 27 and said
'sit down, please. We've been fooled. no money was wired. nothing.'
I was ruined. I'd bug bbrv for money before, but never had the feeling
that I would end in the street. This feeling, I hope few people knows it.
My parents are ill, my gf had no job and I had no money. I was stuck.
And without any papers to claim my unemployment rights .. for The french
government I was employed and had money. It's like that, our system is
very strict. If I decided to let down everything, I would have lost all
my money for my work between october and january. 3500 euro. Maybe nothing
for you, but for someone that was paid a month over two during ages, it
was some treasure.
Some global action in front of the law almost started a month ago, but
someone in the offices wanted to wait some more, just to be sure he would
get unemployement help. It takes 6 months of work before employement
helps starts here.
I went to see a lawyer in mid january, I still had no papers, and it
became evident that Thendic-France would close soon.
(according to my friends in Paris, Mr Velasco looked very exhausted. he
was often away, and talked very few). It was hard times for all of us
I suppose. I don't blame him for the insults in my back, I'm sure anybody
in that situation would have become nervous.
The lawyer asked me why i didn't came before, heh. Around the 20 of
january, I finally receive my contracts... For october and november.
I refused to sign that, provided It made me lose december and january, and
for it's higly illegal to sign such a contract, (a contract ought to
be signed the seven days past it's beginning at MAX.)... Since I kept
doing my job.
[ And well I was offered in december a 'new contract for 'december and
onwards' at the end of the one i never saw, recall it ? ;)
(TO be precise, I kept working even after Thendic closed, until the end of
april, with the strange hope that everything would return back in order
sooner or later. We had the product. We had the best men, and some nice
advertisement ('propaganda?') almost everywhere.) ]
Finally, I am not unemployed. Thanks to my coding skills, and the fact that
bbrv pushed me into web coding, I was able to survive. And also pasta. Loads
of pasta, during all these months. BUT I never was able to claim for
unemployment heps, or any help related, since my contract was never ended
correctly. The french state considers that i'm still working... for a dead
company.
I'm now fighting against the liquidator for him to give me the damn papers
i need and the money everybody received in Paris...but me. I have no
particular social help, and i've been publicly insulted several times on
forums. I tend to ignore forums. My reputation went >NIL: of course. When
bbrv said that I was abusing the social helps, it wasn't true. When my
action will be finished, my right for unemployement helps will be outdated.
SO no, I don't abuse my people, my country.
I'm not the man that financed a computer with our National Company security
funds. Not even the one that forgot to pay the 532 Pretory people between
april 2003 and for some, until now. Many families, with childs. Just for
a bunch of silicium I don't even fully own the rights.
That person may faint not being aware, I'm sure I would be very aware of
everything that happens into a company I own 93% of.
Nowee
There is always Windows with alot of drivers for everything 
[ Edited by Sphinx_Ra on 2004/11/15 21:01 ] 
