6 Nov
2006
6 Nov
'06
2:36 p.m.
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:46 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
My feeling is that technical factors favored ALSA over OSS (not to say
that the ALSA api is complete or perfect, of course). Obviously you and
others disagree about that. Re: SuSE, I don't know if Jaroslav was hired
before he started work on ALSA, or after ALSA had been around for a
while, I suspect the later.
Another important factor other than the (crucial) technical stuff is
that ALSA has been completely open from the get go, one of the very
reasons I switched a long time ago.
-- Fernando
Josef Jurek wrote:
Ahem... In my eyes the stuff you posted _is_ marketing. Nothing wrong
with that, of course, just don't be surprised if the target audience
does not buy into it.
"Marketing propaganda?" 4Front
Technologies is a company that
engages in the sale of software for profit. 4Front Technologies therefore
requires and presumably has a "market", people who pay them for their
products.
4Front Technologies is just three programmers/developers. There is no
marketing people. I don't
think the same situation exists for those
who develop ALSA.
So you didn't know that key members of the ALSA team have been employees
of SuSE.