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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: Re: (SB Live) Free drivers or not? (fwd) 
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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Fred Floberg wrote:

> These were my thoughts as well when I read the first post in this thread.
> While Zippy's Soundcards Inc. may release a binary only driver for
> their ScreechMaster 2000 soundcard there is no reason on earth why
> Jaroslav would have to support it. He would be completely free to ignore
> the existance of that binary only driver (and I would encourage him to do so).

Yes. I will probably follow this. I will silently ignore these "binary"
activities. I also agree with Linus (the e-mail about kernel modules).

It would be nice if a volunteer can complete a HTML page (or portion
of text which could be merged with http://alsa.jcu.cz/call.html) with
this information. I think that we need put strong emphasis to
disadvantages (taken from e-mails posted to the alsa-devel mailing list)
in this text.

Some volunteer?

						Thanks,
							Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


