hi karsten,

thank you for your pleasant response. and it's true! we will begin shipping
with the new modem next tuesday as per the article.

we are committed to make systems that make sense for the linux market...and,
should we error in our design, then i'm sure (as we encourage) the linux
community will let us know.

as a side note, in about three weeks we will be announcing a few new linux
products...

we encourage the linux community to let us know the types of products they
would like but are not currently available from manufacturers...who knows,
maybe we can do it!!

anyway, thank you for taking the time to write. and, thank you for the kind
words.

have a nice evening!

thanks,

rich