Responding belatedly as someone pointed me to this and an article written online that covered this issue .. I'd like there to be at least public record somewhere of the reality of things. Personally I had moved on, but as it apparently continues to circulate and escalate on its own, I feel the need to respond publicly.
People on the list here can feel free to skip over this email if you were not involved in the project Luke is referencing, though it does hold a cautionary tale for anyone who would look to EOMA68 and those behind it as a viable solution.
On Friday, May 23, 2014 22:59:41 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Aaron J. Seigo aseigo@kde.org wrote:
I can't speak to the EOMA68 bits as I really have nothing to do with that other than as a potential customer.
aaron, i'm not sure if you fully understand. you've been blacklisted by my associate. that is an irreversable decision. around 2 months ago he gave you notice to remove *all* mention of EOMA from *all* web sites under your control.
I never received any such notice.
messing up someone's relationship with a multi-billion dollar factory has consequences, ok?
As does taking 1000s of $ from a me as your client and never producing the promised product.
A realistic appraisal would be to look at QiMOD's string of failures over the entirety of 2013 that I had absolutely nothing to do with. QiMOD failed to meet deadline after deadline that you had set for yourselves. Those failures stretched out over a long enough period of time that both my own resources for the projects were exhausted and external sources of funding that were at my disposal were withdrawn due to the (rightfully) perceived risk in continuing with QiMOD as hardware partner.
Blaming a possible customer representing a maximum order of 10k pieces (going back to early 2013, better times indeed) for ruining *your* relationship with a multi-billion dollar factory is, frankly, astounding. When everything is riding on such a small order, it becomes obvious just how precarious things were on the EOMA / QiMOD side.
Given that there are zero other customers banging down your door and that we *never* signed a production PO, I dare say you are trying to deny responsibility. Always easier to blame another and let their reputation bear the consequences of your mistakes?
I hope others thinking of doing business with you take that as the warning it ought to be.
you will *never* be a customer of *any* EOMA or QiMod products
This is the definition of a paper tiger.