From: George Michaelson <ggm_at_apnic.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:43:05 +1000

Me too. I found out about Archos, dismissed it as unlikely to be interesting
and then once I found rockbox, re-evaluated. I bought *precisely* because
there was a keen community doing s/w work.

-George

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:26:59 -0800 Mike Payson <mpayson_at_dawgdayz.com> wrote:

> I should also mention, just in case anyone from Archos is listening, that
> before I read about Rockbox, I had ruled out the Archos due to a couple of
> missing features (most notably random play across the entire disc). Once I
> read about Rockbox, I went out & bought my recorder the next day. So, there
> is at least one sale that is -directly- a result of the Rockbox project.
>
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:49 am, Bradley Alexander wrote:
> > Also good to see a company view the work of a group of talented
> > developers as an asset rather than as a threat...Not enough of this in
> > this day and age...
> >
> > Again, excellent job. My hat's off to the entire development team.
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:16, Andrew McCallum wrote:
> > > Glad everyone's work is getting recognized :) My jukebox wouldn't be
> > > half as useable if it wasn't for rockbox.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > http://mentalfloss.ca
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se] On
> > > Behalf Of Björn Stenberg
> > > Sent: December 11, 2002 9:07 AM
> > > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se; rockbox-announce_at_cool.haxx.se;
> > > archosjukebox6000_at_yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: Archos plans to ship Rockbox with Jukebox Studio
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > An interesting development: Archos Product Management have asked for
> > > permission to include Rockbox on the Support CD shipped with all their
> > > Jukebox Studios.
> > >
> > > I have granted them permission to do this. The GPL license actually
> > > allows anyone to distribute Rockbox, but asking first is a nice gesture.
>
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Received on 2002-12-12