From alsa-devel-owner@alsa.jcu.cz  Tue Feb 23 17:25:15 1999
Received: from quark.vpplus.com (vpws62.vpplus.com [207.49.240.62])
	by marvin.jcu.cz (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA11539
	for <alsa-devel@alsa.jcu.cz>; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:24:31 +0100
Received: from quark.vpplus.com (tnt2-28-65.iserv.net [204.157.28.65])
	by quark.vpplus.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA22461
	for <alsa-devel@alsa.jcu.cz>; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:33:50 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <36D2D79A.53F24014@quark.vpplus.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:30:18 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.vpplus.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: alsa-devel@alsa.jcu.cz
Subject: Re: RME DIGI 32, DIGI32/8, DIGI 96, DIGI 96/8 Hardwareinfo denied.
References: <14034.26053.425129.510695@wm15.mhsg.ac.at> <14034.50543.497681.42285@gaston.ethz.ch>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Reply-To: alsa-devel@alsa.jcu.cz
Sender: alsa-devel-owner@alsa.jcu.cz
Precedence: list

Andreas Eggenschwiler wrote:
> Am I the only one who thinks that OSS is not just annoying any more but
> starts to be a real threath to the free software movement?

yes, it seems to me that more and more vendors are using 4Front as a
path of least resistance to drivers for Linux, because they will happily
sign NDAs.  Then the vendors turn around and use 4Front as a scapegoat
when asked for specs by free software people.  The only realistic way I
see to break this trend is to make the OSS API obsolete (it's a big
kludge anyways), by getting ALSA integrated into the Linux kernel.

-- 

						Brian Gerst

