Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:40:29 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSS Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970325102754.19485A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970325173433.24732B-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk>
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Hi; On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Tony Kimball wrote: > > Doesn't OSS stand for "Open Sound System", doens't look very "open" to me > anymore... it's not! I was somewhat frustrated by this, because one could argue that hannu is making a buck off all of the folks that contributed expertise in the early day. nonetheless, the list of stuff that is supported by oss is really significant, and for folks who have just spent umpty-squidillion dollars on a power pc running aix or some other spendy unix, 20.00 is a drop in the hat. I suspect that 4front is not actually trying to sell oss licenses to folks like us, it's just a way to pay the light bill. What they may be trying to do is sell licenses to ibm, univell ( or whoever they are now ), dell, dec, and all the other vendors of unixes that cost money. > Was work on the FreeBSD sound drivers pretty much suspended waiting for > OSS ? If so I'm worried, will it become $20NotFreeAnymoreBSD or will we > have FreeBSD with no major sound driver changes for months ? i would say that that is a safe bet. if not by design, then by default. i know i sort of hung out worring about other things. the sound directory is big and spooky, and in need of an effort on the order of another mailinglist and even a core team. Most of the competent folks in this area have pretty full plates. It seems unlikely that people who have fires to fight with getting 100m ethernet support fleshed out are going to have time to mess with this. it is sort of silly and useless anyway. i expect to keep playing with it in the coming months, but i see noone on the horizon willing to invest the energy to get this moving. it is just going to be a dribs and drabs sort of thing. > Steve. > > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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