Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:59:26 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is the new sound code being committed? Message-ID: <199610102259.WAA26892@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:57:39 MST." <29440.844937859@time.cdrom.com>
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> > 2. You don't have to pay for their "Lite" version, which still promises to > be more capable than anything we have now. > Good! Agora (a mail web pages back to you style doodad) tends to obscure some info.. > The basic idea is that we create a *standard* for sound drivers which > folks like RealAudio or Xing Technologies can then target in their > application software (and, if done right, work across platforms if > general binary compatibility is also provided). OSS wants this badly > enough that they're willing to release a version of OSS/Lite under > the BSD copyright, and we can use it free and clear. If you want to > support every last feature of the latest and greatest sound cards, > you then look into buying the full OSS LKM, otherwise you just use > the free stuff. So when's it coming out???? > > Is any that less disturbing? I think standards are pretty important > here, and they've already won the Linux and SCO markets. This is true - my SCO contact (whom I've been working on the Broadway sound code with) has been using it a lot. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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