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From: Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@Op.Net>
To: alsa-devel@alsa.jcu.cz
Subject: as if to prove my point ...
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jacob crawley, a senior guy at Creative, writes on the linux-kernel
list (where he has also advertised a job writing linux drivers for
creative cards !):

  Creative not unwilling to provide programming information, there
  simply isn't any because it hasn't been written.  We have almost
  never given this type of information out, instead we have exposed
  functionality through API's (Windows centric).  So we have to work
  on writing the documents, sample source code, etc.

This reinforces my point that the problem with doing Linux stuff is
often not unwillingness to provide information, but the fact that it
simply doesn't exist in a form where it can be released (ie. its in
people's heads).

Folks: if Creative produce some good cards for your purposes, please
buy one and write Creative to tell them you did it because they
decided to support Linux (and had a good product). This is a great
decision, and to the best of my knowledge a first in the soundcard world.

--p

ps. I also loved this comment from mr crawley:

>  NT is mute because it is fundamentally broken, period.  That any
>  hardware works on that OS is amazing.
      

