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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:48:37 -0800
From:      grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OSS 
Message-ID:  <199703250057.QAA16192@who.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:41:10 -0800  <199703250041.QAA02031@rah.star-gate.com> 

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> From:  Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
> Subject:  Re: OSS 
> 
> I understand your point of view but to be a little realistic at the
> very least you ought to provide evidence that OSS is much superior
> to the current Voxware driver. In other words qualify and quantify
> your assertions then we have a solid foundation for a discussion.

Well, yeah.  I'd expect to try out the 5-day free trial before
paying for it, and regardless of its quality, I would report my
experience to this mailing list.
I have no idea if OSS is any better than VoxWare.  I'm simply hoping
it is.  It's also pretty clear that there is no foundation for
discussion of the quality of OSS (since they only released it
yesterday).  There is the potential for the discussion about
whether commercial products for FreeBSD is a good thing.  In brief,
I say "yes".

> BTW: I do consider the idea of OSS a good thing. Is just that right
> now it does not meet my requirements for instance I am running 
> FreeBSD-3.0 and the release notes claims that it will not work
> on FreeBSD-3.0. I probably more than most of you have been waiting
> for a solid sound driver from Hannu and to be honest I am tire
> of waiting so off I go in a short while to remedy the existing
> Voxware issues. Unless, 4Front can better support me I will have
> no choice other than to create our own support structure.

Yeah, that's obviously a big problem with no source code.  On the
other hand, I simply haven't had the time to pursue (hypothetical)
driver bug even though I _do_ have source code...

	Steven



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