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

Posted by timothy on from the price-negotiable dept.

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.

2 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Bounty won't matter much. by zensonic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Regardless of the coolness factor of this bounty, the fact still remain: A GPLed softmodem driver still requires certification by the telephone companies before any device is legally connected to the telephone network using the driver.

    My guesstimate are that it's much more difficult to obtain certifactions for the driver around the globe than it is to write the driver. The telephone companies are rather picky about what the allow onto their networks

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  2. Re:Bountys - a great Way to fund development of OS by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No one has heard of

    linuxfund.org

    ?

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