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COI disclosure. I'm the former Chairman and CEO of Open Interface North America, Inc. (OINA) I'm also the founder and now sole partner in Dashlight, LLC, once Dashlight Systems, LLC that acquired controlling interest in Open Interface North America, Inc., on May 17, 2004. There are errors in the writing of the article. They are as follows:

1) In the second line, Open Interface, Inc. (OIJP) was not formed to commercialize Bluetooth in 1992. Bluetooth wasn't even ratified as a standard until 1998. Basically, Bluetooth didn't exist yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth Also note, neither reference, 1 and 2, indicate that it was the purpose of OIJP. It was originally a software localization company that morphed into a few things.

2) OINA was not "acquired" by the employees as stated and referenced. See Reference #4. When Dashlight acquired controlling interest, there were preexisting shareholders that remained, including stock optionees. We granted additional options to employees to make sure they stayed, and there were some smaller shareholders that were founders of OINA that stayed in that were also employees. My comment to Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times was that the result was we were about 80% owned by the employees, which was a correct statement as Brier has written. This is different from what's written that states that the 80% employees acquired the interest from OIJP. Unexercised options are not the same thing.

3) The prior posting as of two days ago, had everything 100% correct. Others had contributed to make sure it was as such and it's been in place for a few years. Unfortunately, most of the reference data sources are no longer around but I would love it if others could help research to gather back all the facts that were once a part of the listing.TomNault (talk) 17:31, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out #1. Fixed.

On #3, the article was a piece of unsourced WP:OR before yesterday and should have been reduced to a stub. instead I put time into it and tried to FiXIT. This is an iterative process.

On #2 There are only two sources on this. If anything the Seattle Times source is considered more reliable in Wikipedia than Dashboard's website, and if I hadn't found reference to Dashlight being part of the acquisition deal in an obscure Qualcomm SEC filing, I probably would have deleted reference to Dashlight altogether. I did the best I could with the sources we have. We are constrained by the sources. Jytdog (talk) 19:31, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]