From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 12:40:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA09174 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 12:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from DeepCore.dk (aalb9.pip.dknet.dk [194.192.0.169]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09135 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 12:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by DeepCore.dk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA00328; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 17:21:47 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199603301621.RAA00328@DeepCore.dk> Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) To: smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 17:21:47 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Mar 29, 96 11:57:57 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Sujal Patel who wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >>> USS Lite is a freeware version of the full UNIX Sound System. In short it's >>> exactly the same than current TASD 3.5 which is available for Linux, FreeBSD >>> and BSD/OS 2.1. The only difference between TASD and USS Lite will be a min >> >> In other words, this driver will NEVER be incorporated into FreeBSD. My words exactly... Well, I think we have been bitten by one of those that does freeware as a "holy cow", when everybody is turned into belivers, you start milking the cow :(, not my idea of free software... > We should probably just go with TASD 3.5 which is under a BSDish > copyright and then develop sound ourselves from here on. At least there > is one bright side to this, we can finally clean up some of the sources so > we don't have #ifdef LINUX #ifdef SYSV #ifdef SCO #BSDI, and the assorted > horrible mess... Yep, lets clean up this mess, then we can always add any new features this "bright" guy invents ourselves.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..