Vedran Miletić wrote:
2008/11/11 Bjoern Olausson lkmlist@gmail.com:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 19:33, James Courtier-Dutton James@superbug.co.uk 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.
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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.