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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?"
Bluetooth is the SHITTIEST 'standard' in the goddamn world! My girlfriend had a bluetooth cellphone and bluetooth USB thing, and it worked about 5% of the time. And the other 95% of the time the USB card animated itself and attacked her. Seriously.
-Bill
The problem here is that the bounty system is essentially flawed. Independent studies have proven that people are *less* motivated by financial gain ie - the bounties than the desire to produce solid code available to all with no restrictions.
Who would have thunk it?
If you think this is such an important story (and I do), then why the annonymity?
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If this was worth a sh*t, it would've been done by now.
I mean, really, who gives a d*mn about Treo, PalmOS or Bluetooth? Clearly no one with technical talent.
Sheesh.
Thank you very little. Last I checked there were no spelling rules on Slashdot. I could be wrong ( but I doubt it ).
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