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He brought up Bill's character and said we should cut him a break. But he gives no reason beyond some nebulous "(he) is (under) a near constant state of extreme pressure". The arguments are not old in relevance at all. Kent, OS5 much better than OSX, AA2, these are all events within the last 2 to 3 years. And other ones still resonate because Amiga has never shown a better side to themselves to us.

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If Jamie can make a blanket statement that Bill is ok, we can respond as to why we would find that hard to believe without further info to the contrary.

Do you have any evidence to support that Bill was behind the decision to go ahead with the Kent deal? We already know that others further up the chain were actively involved in the workings of the company, Bill was only acting president (or whatever title he had been given).

Bill is the public face of the company so its natural to blame him for everything thats gone on, but even going as far back as the vouchers, we have no way of knowing who it was that came up with the ideas. Back in the day, I had a PR guy who made all my announcements for me, took all the flack went things went wrong and was the guy the press came down on like a ton of bricks whenever a fall guy was needed.

Is it not possible that Bill still is the same guy we liked initially, that has had to make statements and chose actions that went against his opinion, but were given to him from on high and that is still trying his best to give us what he origionaly hoped to despite all the roadblocks that are being thrown in front of him?

Perhaps that is what Jamie means? Afterall, if Bill was the man behind some of the things that have gone on, both of us have struggled to understand why he still holds his job. If those ideas were not his own, it goes a long way to understanding why he does still hold the job.

Also, in the long post that Jamie made, most of it was about AVD and how working for Amiga affects development of it. He wrote a small part of that post about Bill and Hyperions motives, most of it was not relevant to what most of the posts in reply have been about and at the time of posting only a couple have answered his question.

But because he did open that doorway, most of the posts since then have been charging through the house, trampling the nice white carpet with their muddy boots demanding to know where the party is. (That analogy might be crap, but its very relevant to whats happening in my house at the moment making me wish this thread happened yesterday or tommorow instead of bloody now... Appologies for the dreadful mess I'm making of the quoting)

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And I did not bring up the voucher scandal BTW. (Were you refering to someone else there?)

Well I did address my first post to the thread than to any individual so yes is your answer.

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