Hello, for those of you who don't know me, I'm sling00, former lead platform developer for pimp ( From the beginning of its inception, everything past melts second beta, My job was the operating system, scripting, all the backend stuff that makes ati drivers play nice on all the different machines. compiling all 15 different miners, the update system..etc...). Up until about 4 days ago, thats what I did. I'm now the lead developer for gpuShack's ethOS.
To rebut some of the character claims against kotarius, specifically saying he only cares about the money... let me just leave this here from #ethereumos:
kotarius> werwercat sling00 , i have an annoucement regarding the distribution of profit from the revenue associated with the distribution of ethOS. #1. I have decided not to take any profit from it. since profit = revenue - costs, i will only recover costs associated (shipping, $10/ssd, etc)
#2. profit will be distributed among developers who have write access to the google docs dev sheet
#3 developers will earn gpushack profit based on the number of completed action items
from said ethos sales
#4 since weipool is the preferred pool, action items associated with the continued development of this pool can be logged on the dev sheet
#5 developers are themselves responsible for assigning and completing their own action items
that is all
#5 = kotarious got tired of me asking him to add items to it for me <- 
Heliox / Eloivp, I tried to contact you the other day, to let you know about kotarius' involvement in pimp development, and the fact that development would have stopped sooner than it did if it weren't for his input, nor would alot of the cooler quality of life features ever seen the light of day without his support and ideas, and my work. I'm not discounting the work lily did on the front end, or melt did managing the project. Ystarnaud also played a key role in making pimp what it was at the end by fixing sgminers multi algorithm stuffs. Please consider this before you reply. Also, knowing that english is not your first language, Let me explain that he was not literally calling you melts dog. It is a figure of speech, when one person sends another person to raise hell at another person its an "attack dog" or an "enforcer". It does not literally mean you are a dog, nor was he belittling/degrading you.
It's also sad to me how quickly we all are to turn on each other, when this whole debackle started between pimp and ethos, I tried to defuse the situation, as Kotarius was a friend of mine before pimp, and was the single largest financial contributor to the project through the course of its development, as well as providing us with certain makes of video cards to do specific testing (r9 290 im looking at you.). Losing my friendship with melt7777 also pains me. However if he is willing to throw away our friendship because of my involvement with ethos, then so be it.. It is my opinion that the pimp projects stagnation, and complacency, as well as melt simply finger pointing every request to a bitcoin feature request page, that the project ended up the way it did, stagnant. I wish the pimp team the best of luck, but i would hope for all of us that you guys can keep it clean and professional. These are two different products aimed at two different markets, coexistence should not be a problem, and could have been embraced for mutual gains instead of the holy war this has started which leaves mining the community weaker as a whole.
