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Message-id: <467EC7E1.5070301@shaw.ca> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:37:05 -0600 From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca> To: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek@...y.mif.pg.gda.pl> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] >> Years ago Linux dumped OSS for ALSA because ALSA offered far better >> functionality and support. Why would we go back to the stone age ? >> >> Its something useful to various other platforms with basically no >> hardware support but Linux has ALSA and very good hardware support and >> ALSA even has emulation for back compatibility with old OSS apps. >> >> Ten years ago it would probably have made a difference, five maybe, today >> its a release of historical code at best, and since they shipped binary >> modules for Linux more like 'getting around to complying with the >> licence' than anything else. > > Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss. > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments. If you are the one advocating using OSS, it's up to you to explain why it's better using technical arguments, which you haven't done. I rather doubt it is possible to do so convincingly. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@...pamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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