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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 02:27:27 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        shocking@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Cc:        Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OSS 
Message-ID:  <199703251027.CAA06756@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 19:53:06 %2B1000." <199703250953.TAA01299@mailbox.uq.edu.au> 

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Oh, I don't know.

I think that there is room for both OSS and a viable interim solution.

For starters, the current sound driver 3.5 needs a ton of
work and planning. Am I willing to wait for Hannu to release the
code , I don't think so. 


	Amancio

>From The Desk Of shocking@mailbox.uq.edu.au :
> > 
> > Hmmm... it doesn't look good.  The 4Front pres., Dev Mazumdar, tells
> > me that they want $150,000.00 for a source license.  That just doesn't
> > seem worthwhile to me.
> > 
> 
> I'm told (I think it was Jordan who said it) that they intend to donate the 
> source in 6 months time. Presumably paying the $20 will pay for the porting 
> effort. Of course their code base will then continue to diverge, but at least
 
> we'll have most of the cards supported.
> 
> 
> 	Stephen
> 





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