Upping The Softmodem Code Bounty -- To $20,000

Alex Pilosov writes: "I've announced a bounty for completion of softmodem code (20k$) on linmodems-discuss list. If this is successfully completed, we'll have a completely universal driver for any kind of winmodem without any proprietary code which result in all sorts of kernel version problems." Here's the full text of the announcement and conditions.

Comments

Re:Stay away from this path!

[JediTrainer]

Bounty $20000 for developing an application that will bring your computer to a crawl.

AFAIK nobody suggested that the driver has to be written in Java

disclosure: I AM a Java developer and I was just being sarcastic - no flames please

Re:Mirror of Text

[tzanger]

Code must not rely on DSP, pure C required.

So let me get this straight: If the modem is an HCF modem (i.e. has its own DSP) you aren't allowed to use it. In other words, the guy is putting up $20k for someone to write a universal HSP driver. Interesting notion.

I'm sure there's v.34 code available. v.90 may be a little trickier. The neat part about this is that you should (in theory) be able to use your soundcard and a part-68 interface for a modem if this is pulled off.

Re:Motivation?

[kruczkowski]

Hmm. It looks like he's a troll from sector 7G sir.

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