[alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium Series Linux 32bit/64bit Driver Source released

[Bjoern Olausson]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 19:33, James Courtier-Dutton
<James at 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.

Bjoern