[linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

[Jay Vaughan]

>although i broadly agree with lee on most things, i think that this way
>of approaching this issue is unnecessarily confrontational. just flip it
>around ... why should vendors expose their hardware interfaces just to
>keep linux' reputation for stability up?
>

To whom does the hardware belong?  Me, personally, I'm sick of buying 
hardware that I don't have any control over, save to be enslaved by 
the whims of the hardware manufacturer.  This vast gap between what 
I'm allowed to do with hardware and what I can do with hardware is a 
potentially crippling factor in the continued expansion of computing 
systems in the modern world; how much trash is generated yearly by 
people who decide they can't do what they need to do with the 
hardware in front of them because they don't know enough about how it 
works, so they 'upgrade' and get 'newer' stuff instead?

Its a huge issue, and a highly charged conversation in nearly all 
aspects, but one fact should never be overlooked in this debate: you 
have a choice.  Use binary-only drivers, or use source-only drivers. 
In the Linux world, that sphere of choice is a lot larger than in the 
non-Linux realm .. I can't name a single Windows driver, for 
anything, that ships with source ..

That said, this subject: should be changed 'getting out of the 
software politics game', because thats what its really all about. 
Software politics is not the same as software run-time, yo ..

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Jay Vaughan