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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> I have read parts of this mail, and I don't like a single line of it.

Ugh.  Just read it.  It's bad...

I guess what I want now is a mailing address for Creative Labs so I
(and whoever else I can get interested) can send comments stating that
we're not going to buy their cards (nor recommend them) until they
change this policy.  It's worked in the recent past.  It might work
now, especially if we get an ungodly number of ./ people responding.

For those still reading, Jon Taylor <taylorj@ggi-project.org> says:

> Personally, I do not think that open-source is nearly as big a deal
> for device drivers as it is for more general types of programs like
> operating systems or applications.  They are quite boring sometimes
> and consist largely of a bunch of one-off hacks.

I don't know what he's been smoking, but I'm a *lot* more likely to
let a closed source app on a machine than a closed source hardware
driver which *runs in kernel space*.  My machine is stable and
(hopefully) reasonably secure.  I plan to keep it that way.  Closed
source can't support that because there isn't sufficient peer review
to catch as many dangerous mistakes, and there isn't sufficient peer
review to catch possible malicious actions.

> I'll try to get back as much of the "Bazaar effect" as possible by
> releasing lots of public betas, but you all must understand that a
> more traditional commercial organization like Creative does not like
> to see buggy half-working products go out the door.  We will see
> what happens.

Creative Labs doesn't let buggy products out the door... sure, and
neither does MS.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

