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Treo Bluetooth Bounty Efforts Unsuccessful

Posted by timothy on from the born-to-lose dept.

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?"

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  1. Wow, they gave it an entire 3 months! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Learn to have some patience before throwing in the towel.

  2. Unrealistic Expectations by Noksagt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. No wonder by janoc · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Three month of development for OS 5.x, which is a messy hybrid of old Dragonball code and new ARM stuff with mediocre development tools (e.g. POSE does not emulate OS 5.x machines, AFAIK) ? Are they nuts ? Or did they really think, that somebody is going to plop down money for the dev. kit, sign few NDAs to get the docs and implement it for $5k which probably does not even cover the price of the dev. kit.

    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.

  4. Re:Bluetooth sux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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!

  5. Give me a break by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  6. Re:People too picky on jobs these days? by dioscaido · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > 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.