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

[Michael McConnell]

Marc et al,

It seems I owe you guys an apology. I wrote that missive of mine when tired
and annoyed about something entirely different ...and it didn't help that a
mail delay somewhere resulted in your email listing the top posters to the
list arrived here after the cut-off time of 8th September.

-- Michael.

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Marc Boucher wrote:

> 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)
> 

-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell
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