"I'm just listening to the boingsworld 22 podcast containíng a lengthy interview with Petro (German).
Petro confirmed the old rumor that Bill Gates didn't want a new Amiga system to compete with his PCs and so put pressure on the Gateway CEO. The Gateway CEO in turn put pressure on Jim Collas. Jim Collas didn't like the Gateway CEO patronising him and resigned. So it was not the affair with one of the Annex girls that brought him down...
After Jim Collas left the scene Petro wanted to buy the Amiga and already had a contract ready to be signed that sold him all Amiga for one dollar, but then McBill turned up with 3 Million bucks and so he got the acceptance.
McBill took some 70,000 $ from the Amiga account without informing the others, what Petro didn't like at all. Furthermore Petro was convinced that McBill and Fleecy and Co were not professional enough to work with them and so he resigned.
To avoid flurry among the community it was officially announced that he had retired.
It was a very interesting interview and took 1 hour and twenty minutes - to sad it was in German only, as it disclosed a lot of things that were completely new to me...
A really brilliant interview!"
Traduco veloce, veloce che vado di fretta.
"Sto ascoltando podcast 22 che contiene una lunga intervista con Petro T.
Petro conferma la vecchia diceria riguardo a Bill Gates che non voleva il nuovo Amiga su cui stava lavorando Gates perche' lo avrebbe messo in competizione con i pc quindi Gates mise il CEO di Gateway sotto pressione e questi disse a Jim Collas di abbandonare Amiga. Jim Collas si licenzio'. Non e' stato la relazione con una delle ragazze di Annex a fallo cadere. Dopo che Jim Collas lascio' Petro voleva comprare Amiga e aveva gia' un contratto pronto per comprare Amiga per 1 dollaro ma arriva Bill McEwen che con 3milioni si porta via tutto. McEwen prese $70,000 dal conto Amiga senza informare gli altri, cosa che Petro ritenne ingiustificata. Petro era convinto che McEwen e Fleecy non erano all'altezza e non proprio dei professionisti quindi anche lui lascio', cosa che fu presentata come pensionamento."
Che schifo!
