[Bluez-users] The 4th anniversary of BlueZ

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Folks,

the open source version of the BlueZ project is celebrating its 4th
anniversary. On May, 3rd 2001 Max Krasnyansky announced that Qualcomm
released the source code under the GPL.

	http://mhonarc.axis.se/bluetooth-dev/msg01881.html

While the project was running inside Qualcomm for some time before this
date, I decided to use this one as "birthday" for the official Bluetooth
protocol stack for Linux. Actually I think only Max knows how old BlueZ
really is.

For me it is unbelievable that it was almost 4 years ago when I started
to work on the DTL-1 driver for my unsupported Nokia Bluetooth compact
flash card. The range of Bluetooth devices was quite small at that time
and as so often I bought one that was not supported by Linux. The rest
is already history ;)

The other big event in the BlueZ history was when Max handed the primary
maintainer role over to me. This was on January, 15th 2004 shortly after
the first release of the 2.6 kernel series.

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.announce/5

I think it is actually hard to give up your "baby" and hand it over to
someone else if you worked so long on it. So let me thank Max for
starting this project and for his terrific job in the first years when
BlueZ made its steps into the open world.

On April, 11th 2005 we reached another big step. The BlueZ got its
official qualification and is now accepted by the Bluetooth SIG as a
subsystem. I have to thank TomTom for paying the 10,000 USD listing fee,
because otherwise this would never had happened.

And I also have to thank everyone who sent in a patch or more over the
last 4 years and all the people that are using BlueZ day-by-day. I hope
we made your wireless life a little bit easier and of course with less
cables in between.

Finally I like to open a call for donations. So if you like what we are
doing or if you think that it is worth to support BlueZ then please
consider to make a donation.

	http://www.bluez.org/sponsors.html

I like to use that money for buying unsupported devices and sending them
to the developers so they can work on it. Also any kind of hardware
donations are welcome. Nothing must be brand new and the old Bluetooth
devices are still interesting. At least to me.

Let me say thank you again and don't forget to celebrate :)

Regards

Marcel




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