[Arm-netbook] eoma and qimod

[Miguel Garcia]

I suppose this is very bad news.

If you do not reach an agreement with your associates, will the
EOMA-68's project be canceled?

Thanks.

2014-06-22 10:54 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
> well,
>
> i must apologise to everyone, the effect that the situation with aaron
> has had on my associate is more severe than i thought, and that is
> actually a *good* thing rather than a bad one.
>
> the original goal - which is at the very top of the rhombus tech web
> site - is the one that i wish to see happen.  my associates it turns
> out wish to make money as the absolute sole exclusive top priority and
> they are prepared to sacrifice all and everything - principles,
> ethics, relationships and more - in the pursuit of that absolute
> pathological goal.
>
> so the first thing that happened was that the rhombus CIC was shut
> down without my being informed.  the second was that i was signed up
> as a Director of QiMod Ltd without my signature, then removed when the
> situation with aaron occurred.  in between, the idea (suggested by
> aaron) was floated to use trademarking to protect the EOMA concept
> (and more importantly the end-users from being harmed) by
> mis-implementation.
>
> i've now received demands for cash up-front license fees for the EOMA
> concept that *i designed*, when i was planning to work profitably
> *with* the very people demanding those fees.
>
> this basically means that the very principles that i founded the
> original goal on [to bring together software libre developers with
> mass-volume hardware manufacturers at every stage of the product
> process in a mutually beneficial way] are being _completely_ violated
> by the associates i thought i could trust to help make them happen.
> so, aaron, thank you for helping to create a situation in which i
> found that out now, rather than later.
>
> so i'm now at a major decision point... but let me be absolutely
> clear: i *will not* be sacrificing any principles or ethics, and i
> *will* be carrying on the goal.  i will be making one last attempt to
> make this clear to my associates over the next few days, but if they
> cannot understand how important those principles and ethics are then i
> will be forced to carry on without them.
>
> last but most important thing to say for now: to the people who have
> donated money over the past couple of weeks, if you would like it
> refunded now, please let me know.
>
> l.
>
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