Re: Contest extended until Friday 8/17

Yup. Nate Saunders is working on getting it fixed. I guess we can
chalk it up to Code Red :-).
                             - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com
> From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
> To: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
> Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org, familiar@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [Familiar] Contest extended until Friday 8/17
> -----
> Jim Gettys writes:
>  > We've got many fewer submissions for the contest than we had expected (lots
>  > of initial responses, but few actual submissions).  And many of the
> interesting
>  > apps I know of did not get submitted...  So the marketing folks have
> reopened
>  > the contest for submissions.  You may be able to win an iPAQ or the Laptop
>  > grand prize; you have nothing to lose, and maybe a fun toy to gain!
>  >
>  > So submit your application now for the contest.
>  > http://linuxcontest.cpqidea.com/
>
> GPS receiver: $180
> Foregone income writing pygps: $5,000
> A Linux Contest on a Microsoft-OS web server which craps out after
>     you've typed everything in: priceless
>
> I expected the submission process to fail (it's Microsoft after all)
> so I kept a copy.  But still, maybe there's a *reason* why you've
> gotten so few submissions.
>
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