[hsflinux] [hsflinux-announce] Linuxant releases significantly enhanced Conexant HCF and HSF drivers

[Marc Boucher]

Hi Michael,

Please remember that at the time we were not anticipating that the project
would evolve this way at all (Linuxant didn't even exist) and I offered
to investigate the problem on your Vaio out of pure good will and without
any personal interest whatsoever other than to help you and others with
similar machines.. Getting a working driver in return and being able
to use it since then isn't exactly a kick in the teeth.

It was indeed fantastic treatment and Linuxant will continue to care
about users and fix problems. There are some pretty sophisticated tools in the
works that will facilitate remote diagnostics when incompatibilities or
other bugs are encountered.

Regards
Marc


On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:49:20AM +0100, Michael McConnell wrote:
> From the website:
> 
> > We would like to express our gratitude to all the people who have
> > contributed to our past beta testing programs and to the Linux project by
> > entitling everyone who has been specifically thanked in the CHANGES file of
> > our drivers, or whose email address specifically appears in the MAINTAINERS
> > or CREDITS file of the kernel, or posted more than 10 times to our mailing
> > lists before the first official release on Sept 8th 2003 to a complimentary
> > (non-transferable) license. If you qualify, simply sign up for an account
> > and then email community at linuxant.com to request your license.
> 
> It is unfortunate that, despite having given access to my Vaio to correct
> some issues resulting VIA AC97 fixes being released (including June 18th
> 2002 and August 24th 2002) I was not mentioned in the Credits file in either 
> occasion.
> 
> And, in addition I therefore didn't know about this deadline until after it 
> had passed.
> 
> As a result of such fantastic treatment I will not be buying a licence, and 
> will continue to use the previous release which happens to work well for me 
> at 56K.
> 
> -- Michael (who has just about had it with helping others and getting a kick 
> in the teeth as a result)