Re: [Bluez-users] The 4th anniversary of BlueZ

[Michal Semler <cijoml@volny.cz>]

Hi Marcel,

come to Czech Republic and we will celebrate together :) Czech beer is wold=
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best, czech girls too :) I think, you'll enjoy it and you'll rest out of=20
work :)

Everything is payed by me :)

And thanks for best job. BlueZ changed my life.

Michal=20


Dne =FAt 3. kv=ECtna 2005 23:12 Marcel Holtmann napsal(a):
> 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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Michal Semler


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