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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:10:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris David <cdavid@umich.edu>
To: alsa-devel@alsa.jcu.cz
Subject: Re: (SB Live) Free drivers or not? (fwd) 
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I'll do it!

I've been following this thread, so it should be no problem...  I'm glad
to hear your decision Jaroslav.

-Chris

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> 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
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