@Zylesea

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The alternative was offeed a gazillion times: Sell OS4 with an usb dongle. Genesi never accepted to change the firmware for some special OS4 maschines, but this is not necessary. The license requires a dongle code, how that one is realized is stated nowhere. The idea to sell OS4 for the Pegasos using an usb dongle was offered x-times already since 2002 or even earlier. Even Hyerion confirmed that the firmware ws not the problem. And magnetic was willing to contribute serious funds to accquire a license. But AI never ever accepted anything which had to do with Genesi. There was a lot of good will, but AI f*cked it up (several times, same holds true for the AHT debacle).

You have already my answer in my previous posts(*), but anyway...
First off, let's keep in mind that quite a number of offers have been made through unconventional channels in a form that made them look rather a challenge than else: that's surely not a good start for a negotiation.
Whether there have been private and professional proposals, I don't know. If there have been and they have been turned down, well, AInc had all the rights to do so. Note that I'm not saying that they did the right thing: only that they had full rights. Now, the refusal of an offer does not in any way justify any other kind of attempt to get what has been denied, especially if it gets down to playing dirty games.

edit: (*) I just noticed that in the quote you reported you took care of cutting away a relevant part of the discussion. More precisely:
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For sure, exploiting the weaknesses of the community, of the market, of Hyperion, you name it, the way BB has been doing over and over again is not the right way and is unacceptable. This, along with personal insults, sly lawsuits, open attacks and whatever has been publically witnessed in these last years (and even before... I've heard negative comments about BB since the VisCorp times), rules BB out as a reliable business partner. No wonder if AInc refused to partner with him. They can't be blamed even if BB had commercially valid proposals. BB is only reaping what he sowed - and he keeps on sowing bad seeds.

was contained between the last line you quoted and my nickname.
It makes it look like you don't want to have a honest and open discussion.

saimo

Last edited by saimo on 06-Sep-2006 at 02:35 PM.

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