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List:       alsa-devel
Subject:    [alsa-devel] Re: I would like to express my thanks...
From:       Data <data () gtf ! org>
Date:       2000-04-27 12:44:54
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Anthony Durity wrote:
> 
> to everyone at the ALSA project. With your software I have been able to
> get my crappy OEM Creative Labs Ensoniq hybrid working at home (a year and
> a half ago!) when the kernel did not support it. I have also gotten the
> Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 in my HP Brio pumping tunes here at work so I
> can listen to Slipknot and drown out the sound of my coworkers whistling
> the theme tume from Falcon Crest :)

I feel as you do.  I've been a massive ALSA fan for a while for exactly
the same reason: OSS wanted to charge me for one of their broken drivers
(for an ENS1370), and then along came ALSA with a driver that worked
great - for free.  And it's a _much_ better API.  And I haven't even
begun to rave about the sequencer.

> It never ceases to amaze me that Open Source software can be of such high
> quality and (initially at least) done for little or no monetary reward. I
> hope in some way I can support your project by telling others about it and
> by continuing to support Open Source software in general.

ALSA's main problem is OSS.  People need to be aware of ALSA and to use
it and to start writing apps for it instead of OSS.  This does seem to
be happening, but I don't think a little more evangelism will hurt
anything.

ALSA's main strength, as far as adoption, is that it can do lots of
things which OSS can't do and will never be able to do.  OSS is
unworkable for serious hard-disk recording, and their "sequencer" is, in
my opinion, a joke.  (I wouldn't be so upset at them if I hadn't
actually paid for their crap software in the past ..)

cheers -- Data
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