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To: S ren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Status and future of sound drivers ? 
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:21:46 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Why dont you take a look at the net/open-bsd sound code, that would
> get us rid of funny copyrights too, and maybe make a common bsd
> soundAPI possible ?? (that would also free us from the old spaghetti
> code)...

Well, let's not forget the [far, far greater] importance of having a
Linux compatible audio API.  Their API may have its warts, but as far
as audio applications written to the Linux sound driver spec, they
have us beat by a factor of 10 or so.  Aside for some scattered mbone
tools, there aren't any applications _written_ to use this common
BSD soundAPI if we had one.  Frankly, I'd rather have the apps. :)

					Jordan