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Treo Bluetooth Bounty Efforts Unsuccessful
UberGeek28 writes "The development effort pushed by TreoCentral (previously discussed on /. here) seems to have failed. After raising a bounty of $5,812 for the first developer to meet the requirements of a working Bluetooth driver for PalmOS 5.0 with the Treo 600 in mind, no developer has come forward to claim it. The official word has come here. Maybe another effort with wider impact could succeed where this one failed?"
Learn to have some patience before throwing in the towel.
Although I am really siked for the new Treo's:
Link for Treo Ace
GetTheJob.com : Nothing but Real Jobs.
I know they announced the dealine in advance, but their 3 month project was horribly unrealistic for such a small bounty. The initial slashdot article had comments to this effect (out of the relatively few comments it had--this is a BAD sign: no one really cares). I can see MAYBE an undergrad who didn't have a summer job working on it, but no one else would put everything else on hold for a pathetic bounty for an already ambitious timeline.
Not to mention which Bluetooth card did they have in mind ? The ultra-proprietary Palm one ? As if there was anything else.
Unrealistic expectations doomed this project from the start, IMHO.
am I wrong? It sounds to me like it's just hype. Like all the companies are waiting for the other companies to start putting it in their products. So they wait, and wait instead of implementing and using.
You're wrong. Bluetooth is starting to appear in more and more cars. It's great to just hop in your car and let the car and cellphone sync up and not have to worry about slapping on a headset, plugging wires in, etc.
I think you mean "Bluetooth on Windows sucks". I have Bluetooth on my Mac, with a 3rd party PC Card mind you, powered by an open source driver none the less, and never had any problem with it!
Why not just hire someone as a real employee to do this. I'm sure there are plenty of qualified people who can do this, but they want to be cheap and make it into a contest.
Nobody is going to get started on a project like this when they don't know how many other people are working on it and how far they have gotten. Why waste a lot of time working on this when at any moment someone else can come out of nowhere and make all your work for nothing.
Reality check. The types of people who can write a bluetooth driver are not slave labor who will grovel around in the mud for your amusement.
> That is some good pay man, and in view of all that whinging on /. sometimes I really wonder why no one took up that offer.
heh... probably because 95% of the slashdotters that trash Windows on a daily basis couldn't write an OS module if their life depended on it.
I originally read that as "code to save their files".. heh.
lives. I believe the word you are looking for is spelled lives.
A USD5.8K "bounty" for three month's work? "Good pay"?
That's NZD8.8K - yearly eqiv NZD35.2K. If you're able to actually achieve what's required for that bounty, then you should be able to get a job that pays more than that.
Pretend that something especially witty is here. Thanks.
Half the people here are saying that 3 months is too short. But if they increased it to 6 months, you'd effectively get paid at half the rate - and who wants that? (The other half are saying that the rate is too low already, so the time should be decreased.)
I'm holding the $5812 sum fixed, not going up or down. The reason is because that's the price that Treo 600 owners have committed for a driver. Whether this is too high or too low is debatable, however, at the end of the day, that's the dollar value.