[linux-audio-user] Re: LightScribe and linux

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

Cesare Marilungo:
>
> chris beagles wrote:
>> On 11/30/06, Stephen Hassard <steve at hassard.net> wrote:
>>> Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
>>>> On 11/28/06, Timothy A Gorman <timg at expressmart.com> wrote:
>>>>>  Nox exactly audio related but to me it is...
>>>>>  http://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10095
>>>> If it works, I'll be the happiest man in the world...
>>>
>>> What license is this released under? I assume that it's a binary-old
>>> proprietary license?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> They spelt ubuntu wrong...
>> And it looks a lot like a binary only license.
> Is there any big manufacturer who ever released open source code?
>

Oh yeah. A better question would be, which big manufacturer who _never_
release open source code.

But not even Microsoft qualifies as being one of those: 
http://www.alfred-j-faust.de/download/BarsnPipesSrc.zip
(Link to a commercial sequencer they bought up and later released for free 
with the source "as is")