“This morning I have a conversation with Rick Collette that
outlined the details of his departure from Inventive
Communications:
‘Some people say that when prayer was removed from the schools, the
school system started to degrade. The direction that Inventive
Communications was taking with SPIRO-Linux could be likened to
removing prayer from the schools.”
“What I mean by that is that the level of commercialization and
the amount of marketing dollars that were going into promoting a
cardboard box, that I felt should have been going into the
development of the product itself, is ridiculous.’ – Rick”
“He continues with: ‘They (Inventive Communications) promised me
the funding for the development team that would make SPIRO-Linux a
reality, along with the marketing and business backing to take on
the big guys. After providing them with heart and soul, eighty hour
work weeks, missing all the cool things my kid did while I was
working, they give me a marketing juggernaut and one developer with
a whopping week of experience in Linux. This probably sounds pretty
bitter, and I guess I am.. a little.. but I have some things in the
works, and in the meantime I’ll be providing my services as a
consultant to a communications company. So I guess everything is
going to work out for the best anyway.’ -Rick”