Sooty_G wrote:master-ceo wrote:"JJ - JJ (Hayashi) did work for us. He was the software engineer on the MPC1000 and MPC2500. He was the one that introduced all the bugs that those machines originally shipped with. He even broke the MTC on the MPC2500 before he left us so that he could then fix it and then charge customers himself. He stole our code, and charged customers for OS fixes that we would have had him do and released for free. We chose not to take legal action even though we had every right to because it would hurt the customers. He will not be working for us again. We are in process of fixing the existing bugs as well as adding the Chopshop 2.0 feature from the MPC5000."
wow. the smell of bullsh!t is overwhelming!
who are you gonna believe? some anonymous dude with a post count of *1* putting some pixels on a screen, or the fact that JJ has coded 2 OS's with practically weekly updates for years while akai had done exactly zilch?
let's assume everything that guy is saying is true. so you're telling me some company (especially one facing bankruptcy) is NOT gonna sue the guy who STOLE their copywritten code & is making a profit off of it? especially when they are apparently aware of his identity?!
are you also telling me that akai was unable to hire another person (or even 10 other people!) to code updates/bug fixes to it's own OS to compete with JJ?
are you telling me that akai had the resources to develop the mpc 5000 (a huge beast with it's own synth engine for fukcs sake!) yet just couldn't get it together to fix the well known bugs with the 1000 & 2500 OS?
it's the internet. you can never be sure who is who and what is what. but what you CAN do is use your own logic & critical thinking and i gotta say that guys post just doesn't compute.
a company facing bankruptcy would have no desire whatsoever to sue one person (if we assume that JJ is in fact only 1 person).
akai have no reason to compete with JJ in the market of an MPC OS. people are paying for the hardware and the cost that JJ is charging is basically minimal in comparison to the price of the MPC unit.
remember when you are paying for a product you are paying for the R&D also.
JJ has added a lot of features to the MPC1k but the appearence of this OS has also caused a lot of confusion in regards to what actually goes into the development of a product like an MPC.
features are left out of products so that people will have incentive to buy the models that are more "top of the range" in the category.
let's not forget that when the MPC 1k was originally announced it was marketted as a portable MPC solution or an MPC for people who previously could not afford one.
in regards to "bugs" in the original OS you have to take into account how some (and i stress that word) companies go around testing their products. you are dealing with a very small user base of testers who are looking for bugs and features. i have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that if akai wanted to implement features into it's OS that JJ has already done for the 1000 then they could have easily done so.
to me the JJ situation looks like an ex-employee who has access to the source code and therefore has the ability to upgrade and maintain a third party OS.
the ammount of "assumed" knowledge and plain guessing on this forum is pretty ridiculous IMO.
the original MPC1k had some "hardware" problems but this is only to be expected when you look at the actual price of the unit. most companies are staying away from the hardware game as of late and it's becoming more and more apparent that in the VERY near future hardware could become a niche market and for akai to stick to making units like the MPC 500 and 5000 is very applaudable.
