At least pirates usually work together to make money before fighting over it.

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kolla wrote: The irony is that in Amiga land, it turns out that the Italians are honest, and Germans are a bunch of whiny besserwissers that can't be trusted at all. (Not generalizing at all here, and I am half German myself.)

And the French are more agreeable.

There are some good German leaders in the Amiga community who are often overlooked because they are meek. Frank Wille and Olaf "Olsen" Bathel come to mind.

My ancestry is nearly 100% German myself. I understand the (sometimes flawed) logic but also American (U.S.) style business leadership. German business leadership is usually a top down authoritarian micro managed style with the most qualified person overall at the top while American style is more about delegation of power and team effort using the strengths of each individual. I much prefer the latter and believe it to be more efficient. The flaw of the German style is that the most qualified leader overall often isn't good at certain areas yet micro manages them often sabotaging the whole effort. As applicable to the Amiga, a leader may be good at the technical side and not so good at the business side. This was a problem I had with Gunnar as part of the Apollo Team too.

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kolla wrote: He's just old, grumpy and protective as hardware development is now mainly happening without him. It's perhaps not so funny to become redundant.

The Clone-A project was rejected and has been eclipsed by other FPGA hardware and there are few fast 68k CPUs available today. Jens is a talented hardware guy who is understandably frustrated. The Amiga has a huge amount of hardware and FPGA talent if they could work together and the AmigaOS developers too.

Last edited by matthey on 19-Feb-2019 at 03:09 PM.