[wellylug] Linuxant gone commercial!!!

[Sam]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Jethro Carr wrote:

> I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but linuxant.com, the makers of
> the Conexant winmodem, is now charging $15US for their winmodem drivers.
> You can still download drivers, but they only work at 14.4kbps.:O

That's disgusting.

A conexant 56k modem from Gyrotech (http://www.gyrotech.co.nz/modems.htm)
costs $24.19, including GST.

www.xe.com tells me that USD 15 is NZD 24.45.

They expect people to pay more for the driver than for the hardware
itself?