Vedran Miletić wrote:> 2008/11/11 Bjoern Olausson <lkmlist@xxxxxxxxx>:>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 19:33, James Courtier-Dutton>> <James@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>> All the good contacts I had at Creative have left the company.>>> From what I understand of how the company works internally, is that the>>> only reason they have this open source driver is because some large>>> customer of theirs required it. They have no interest in what happens to>>> the driver over and above supporting the one customer that requested it.>>> I therefore doubt that they will make any contact with us regarding>>> getting the driver into the kernel. If that was the case, they would>>> have approached us earlier.>>>>>> Kind Regards>>>>>> James>>>>> If you are right, that would be a straight hit in the face of every>> Linux X-Fi user and the OpenSource community.>> So sad... but thanks for the info.>>>> Lets hope the best.>>>> Bjoern>> _______________________________________________>> Alsa-devel mailing list>> Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel>>> > Then show your appreciation to Creative by never ever buying any of> their products again. That's what I'm going to do.> Honestly, at least they did something. There are sound card manufacturers that never released a single line of code, nor did they offer NDAs to ALSA developers. If it is for a large customer, I cannot imagine he would be satisfied with the current state of the released driver. But I may be wrong, as often :) Pavel._______________________________________________Alsa-devel mailing listAlsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
