Indeed, it is sad that it has to come to this.
Fact remains that they are not able to maintain their position as distributor. I think partially, because Opensat sold their products behind the back of the official distributor in the past, as it turns out. This has been done repeatedly.
Now, that is unfair competition. I would be mad as hell if this would happen to me.
As far as the miniMe, it is very sad that a distributor has to find out, that the miniMe is on the market and in stock at some web shops. Not getting any information. No communication, whatsoever. And I know for a fact that the distributor did order the miniMe's long before they were on the market. I was there.
There are probably more issues between Smart and OpenSat, the fact remains that the AZBox worId will have to do without the active roll Smart Innovations has played in the past.
Regarding to your "More info" question.
I don't think that Opensat/DT innovation/HTCE, or whatever they call themselves today, will ever officially state that they were behind RTi E2 Core team.
I also think, they will never state that they had these developers on their payroll.
If you stay on the sideline, you won´t have to worry about bugs, as it is not your firmware.....
For me, it is comforting to know that Smart will stay active in the community and some software developments, although it won't be as active as we have experienced.
opensat said:
We wish to SmartInnovations the best success in future business and we want to keep SmartInnovations like a friend company as it always was.
I am very curious as what Opensat is willing to do to keep them as a friend.
With kind regards,
Lange
