Originally posted by bridgman
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This is how you work, you tell one story one day, and then the next day, add a slight twist to it, until eventually, you end up claiming that you have always stated the exact opposite of the original story. And we at SUSE and even in AMD management suffered through this for far too long. You also have a tendency to help make things happen in a certain way, and then later go "Oops, is that how it played out, i could never have imagined that!" towards your superiors and your peers. Enough to piss them off, but not enough to get you into enough trouble for you to get moved aside.
Now. We wrote a proposal in may, and we got to put that plan into action, on the basis of direct communication through technical account managers on either side, and with you supposedly supplying technical information. One would think that, if there was an alterior strategy approved by AMD senior management, the direct communication that existed would have revealed this, in an open and honest manner, wouldn't it?
The reality is that we were, at no point, informed about you executing this 'AMD senior management approved' 'plan that was developed jointly between "AMD people", "ATI people", Dave and Alex.' that you are now talking about. That you were executing a different plan, well, i think we all became privy to that after a bit, but officially, you were supposed to be working along. And this is how you played it too, officially working along, with "unfortunate accidents" along the way.
You no doubt got to read the proposal we wrote in may, as well. You supposedly had this 3h long phonecall with Airlied in june, but that date is not exactly known to me, the actual content is of course not know, and i have no idea what parts of AMD knew about this. What i know is that the first Task Statement was being written up by the SUSE account/project manager (jack) and the SUSE developers before the 15th of june 2007, as i, not having joined suse yet, received it then for my input. When i was in Nuernberg on the 17th, to traipse the city for an apartment together with egbert, Emmes and Sndirsch were busy creating a graphics card wishlist for the 5k usd hw budget AMD had then given us. The first technical call that we had was on July 3rd, and it did definitely not include Alex Deucher, Dave Airlie, and i seriously doubt that you mentioned them in the call then. So, no real signs of this set in stone plan of yours in that timeframe.
Your claim that you were executing something approved by AMD senior management does not explain why you had to sell hiring Alex as hiring "someone to help you with documentation". While the SUSE developers had some idea about who you would actually be hiring (even thought you constantly tried to play us off as stupid, we, to your regret, weren't), i heard that some people inside AMD were not very happy with the way in which you handled this, and the way in which this was sprung onto them.
You just never even mentioned this plan you supposedly were working on, you also definitely never mentioned it even in April 2008, when, with the project under Executive Oversight, Markus Rex already was pretty bloody pissed when you then stated in that you had promised to go do AtomBIOS stuff to redhat the summer before. Would the normally very composed current SUSE VP be that pissed if he had in any way known about your plan, do you think?
Oh, and one cute post of yours (http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showp...2&postcount=48) caused a big manager meeting inside SUSE. There it was decided that, rather than pushing for your resignation (to follow the former AMD-redhat TAM Ted Donelly), to wind down the project and not endanger the AMD-SuSE relationship further. While the winding down was not communicated directly to me (the rest was), this is what i can now see had happened. Would you think that all layers of SUSE management would be so ticked off by your post if your strategy was known to them?
There simply was no such strategy communicated to SUSE Developers or SUSE management, ever. Heck, one would think that SUSE management would've been able to understand that there was such an alternative strategy in this VP call that you joined once about this project, to explain your actions. I would more lean towards AMD management at the time not being too happy about those actions of yours, and them also not knowing this plan of yours.
You're a liar. You never have played anything straight. Your stories are one way today, slightly different tomorrow, and next week the story will sound like it is now suddenly the complete opposite to the one of the week before. You should have been thrown out together with Donelly, but instead, you have been allowed to continue to damage free software and AMD, and as time passes, it becomes more and more clear exactly what damage is being done.
When did you last make any documentation available?
Oh, and KMS was just a brainfart in the summer of 2007. Jakob Bornecrantzer walked in off the streets, and then was handheld through creating a headerfile based on xf86 standard and randr1.2 header files just months before in march 2007. It still is not suited for enterprise use today, 3 years on, but the buzz around it (like with network manager and pulseaudio) drives customer demand towards it.
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