On 12/21/06, M P Smoak <smoak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:47 pm, Paul Davis wrote: > its deeply pathetic, and i think that intel should be absolutely > ashamed of what they have done. even creative did a better job than > this, without even trying to: the SB16 was a standard; not very good, > but a standard nevertheless. > > --p and deeply confining too. Users, mostly "consumers", relegated to being listeners and viewers of the creations of others. Not allowed to record or produce, just consume. But, Wow: they've got the Latest and Greatest. And the foss folks walk on by, hardly seeing ...
I don't follow that last part. I agree, SoundBlaster is embarrassing, but they have the supply for a demand. Should hardware be free too? Should everything be free?
