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I'm just giving them some insight into how modern software development works. That's all.

What you're saying right here proves to me you are a hardware company first and foremost and have little experience in developing software. Do you even have an idea of how the modern world of software development works? Judging by your comment, I'm guessing you don't. It is the norm these days to hire "out of house" software engineers because finding talented people located near where you are set up is a very difficult thing to do. Intel, IBM, Red Hat (my current employer), Google, AMD... the list goes on, they all do it. My colleagues are located all over the world. Talk about smug when you don't even have a clue what you're talking about. And good luck finding someone with my experience conveniently located near you or willing to move to Ohio. Do you really think someone else with my experience who can pick and choose what company to work for from the comfort of their own home is going to pack up and move to Ohio? If you do, you're delusional. So, good luck with that.

I have a question about the software. Have thought about just making it available as an open source project? It's not like China isn't going to clone it anyway. Hell, they're probably working on it already. Anyway, having a large group of people working on it speeds up development and it doesn't cost you a thing. You wouldn't even have to invest in porting it to Mac and Linux as the community could handle it. Another benefit would be that you would create a real community and a large base of loyal customers. The only thing you have to do is make sure your boards are of superior quality to keep your customer base. From where I'm sitting, I see no advantages to keeping it locked down. And btw, have you ever heard of a little something called the Linux kernel and the GNU project? Those are developed and maintained mostly by volunteers.

That won't be possible because I live in The Netherlands. So, I guess that's it then. Everyone on Mac or Linux, don't expect a port any time soon. At least not done by me.

@ John: Please tell me, are you and Brandon truly interested in a Mac and Linux port? Discussing it is one thing but wanting it another. I just want to make sure I'm not wasting my time.

John from Evolv has posted several times in this thread after I made the offer. If Evolv was interested all had to do was say, "thank you, I'll take you up on your offer when things settle down." He didn't do that. Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore and this will be my last post. Have fun with your DNA200's. Edit: Okay, so something weird is going on here. I just checked my gmail and there was a notification about a PM I received on this board. It didn't show up for me here, I had zero notifications which is why I didn't know about it. Anyway, Brandon sent me a PM and they discussed my proposal they day after I made it. Maybe something is going to come out of this after all. Maybe someone wants to tag team on doing not only a Mac but also a Linux release to get things done faster? I can do them both myself but it will take a lot longer. I have a full time job and can only work on it in the evening.

It's too late now. By not responding they've made it quite clear they are not interested in supporting other platforms. In turn I'm not interested anymore in supporting them.

Now they'll have to contact someone else. They've had enough time to reply in this thread or shoot me a PM. Their silence also means I'm not going to buy the DNA200 so goodbye everybody.

Well, it seems the guys from Evolv are not interested in making the software available to as many people as possible so I hereby withdraw my offer. I was more than willing to port it to Mac and also Linux and even maintain it but not anymore. You're basically saying only vapers who use Windows are important. I'm not going to spend time on a company like yours.

To Brandon and John: I know you said you have no plans for a Mac version of the EScribe software. Here's something to think about. I'm a professional Linux kernel developer with 9 years of experience. I've also done work on KDE and various other Linux applications and I've also worked for Intel and IBM. Give me a NDA to sign and I will port it to Mac and maintain it.