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Ecomstation Compatability On New Hardware

Started by PAUL555, 2011.02.11, 06:38:47

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warpcafe

Sigurd and Roderick,

two wrongs don't make a right.
You're both wrong - and both right
( which doesn't help either :) )

#1:
At the developer workshop in 2008 Roderick was interviewed by me. I asked him "when is the next eCS coming".
He turned right, looked at Eugen and said "You have to ask this guy when he gives me a stable ACPI".
This went into an article. Now:
- If after all RC and another RC and so on... the final GA comes out *and*
- ACPI has changed multiple times *AND*
- ACPI is claimed to be much better but still bluntly fails (and is perhaps even worse than before)
-> THEN people get upset and blame ACPI as the reason for delay. Logic?

#2:
Timely communication by Mensys could have avoided this.
OK, not the crappy suboptimal ACPI "experience" perhaps - but at least it could have avoided how people get upset by Mensys.

It still makes me wonder how comes that everyone knows that ACPI is not coded by Mensys... but still everyone keeps bashing Mensys for bad code, bad project management, bad whatever. Is it because Mensys earns money? Probably. But Mensys also invests and pays quite some trunkloads of money in return. People just give it a damn. It's so damn easy to just put the blame on the seller Mensys.

Goodness gracious, there are still TODAY people who talk about "Serenity System"... while basically everyone knows that they are not all involved in anything related to eCS since... how long? It's been YEARS, folks.

Again... all this could have been avoided by communication.
I'm not telling Roderick is a liar or Sigurd is the hero.
I'm also not telling the other way round.

I just would like people to stop bashing at each other. Sigh.

Cheers,
Thomas
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that"
- G.H. Hardy