Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Apr 2006 22:59 UTC
As promised earlier, YellowTAB has released an official statement concerning the bankruptcy rumours. "Rumours have been circulating for a few days now: yellowTAB has been put under bankruptcy protection. This causes many questions and uncertainties. We wish to explain how bancruptcy protection affects our product."
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2005-10-22
Let me translate.
7. Will you continue to collaborate with the Haiku-Team intensively, as you did with the Intel extrem driver?
Yes. We will step up our collaboration on driver development and increase the development of new drivers and applications. This work will fall under the Haiku OpenSource License.
Increasing work with Haiku well help out everyone in case we go out of business and it gives us more credit with the people who support Haiku becasue supporting us supports them.
8. Can I purchase ZETA directly from yellowTAB?
Yes. If you prefer to order ZETA from yellowTAB you can.
Please buy from us directly becasue we get more money that way which means we have less chance of going under.
10. Does ZETA still require activation?
No. To make the user experience smoother we have removed the activation requirement in ZETA 1.2.
In case we go under, users of 1.2 won't be screwed.
AFAIK, from WalterCon , the activation can be closed or deleted.
My take
YellowTab was forced into this by someone else, probably a pissed off someone else.
YellowTab has made many mistakes.
They have a legal right to do what they are doing or else they never would have started. I heard this from someone "in the know" who talked it over with Bernd(or somebody else.)
In the absence of any solid info, rumor became truth.
"They didn't say anything so they must be illegal"
YellowTab let it get out of control. They should have put thier foot down. "We can't talk about this because of contracts we signed"
They should have said this every time it was questioned.
They should have worked more with Haiku instead of "oh Haiku is working on that, so are we, let's work together."
They need to make the offers of help and collaboration, and they should mention it a lot, that they are helping with a lot, not just 1 or 2 things.
They are the company; Haiku is a loose knot group. They have to go to Haiku, it makes them look better.
I should see them on the Haiku mailing, if they are on there, employees should have yellowtab after thier name or part of a signature.
It makes me be more confident about them as a company if they are (more)open and in the community.
Zeta is still a bit pricey, hopefully I'll buy it when I get a job becasue I think they are starting to get thier act together even as they teater (seesaw) on the edge.