Brain Murmurs

6 Responses to “Brain Murmurs Claims Internet Bounty”

1. Abe H, on October 17th, 2006 at 12:09 pm Said:

   Way to get the booty!

2. schalliol, on October 18th, 2006 at 2:54 pm Said:

   Commercial product? You developed this for the $675 bounty, and you’re not going to release it? Generally speaking, such bounties imply that this is the fee you get for making this available. Perhaps it was an oversight on the part of Alex for not stipulating that this needs to be free once developed.

3. Ben Nguyen, on October 18th, 2006 at 3:10 pm Said:

   Man, I’m so glad to hear that you found out the solution that a lot of us was waiting for.

4. dan, on October 18th, 2006 at 3:16 pm Said:

   schalliol,
   If you carefully read the terms of the original bounty post you will see that it explicitly states:

   If the solution is not made available for free (ie. is packaged as a commercial product), anyone who contributed to the Bounty must be given a free license.

   Since you didn’t actually contribute to the bounty in the first place, I don’t understand why you are complaining.

   Also, the $675 only covers about 7.5 hours of the time that we actually put in on the project (4 engineering weeks). If we were billing this work out at our hourly rate it would have cost us in excess of several thousand dollars.

5. schalliol, on October 18th, 2006 at 3:48 pm Said:

   I would have considered contributing to the bounty if I knew about it (have done so for other bounties). Most bounties do require that the winner release the product freely, though clearly this wasn’t done here. It’s good that all those donating will receive a free license.

6. Chris, on October 18th, 2006 at 4:48 pm Said:

   Dan if you get it working on the 7130e just let me know where to send the check, just price it reasonably because i am still in debt from buying this damn mac! haha

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