2 Nov
2006
2 Nov
'06
3:44 p.m.
Le jeudi 02 novembre 2006 15:51, vous avez écrit :
Hi folks,
Hi and thanks for the mail :-)
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However the real OSS by 4Front Technoliges is there to stay. While OSS
is "binary only" at this moment the situation is changing. We are about
to release OSS 4.0 under some open source license. We still need to
decide the exact license (GPL, CDDL, BSD or some combination of them)
before releasing the sources but that should happen in the near future
(maybe weeks or months).
I found your website when I looked for information, and it
is true :-) that
the "OSS deprecated" blurred my valuation. You say that you will make a
release with an Opensource licence, but when ?
Without this
developers would stick with OSS which is several magnitudes easier API
to use.
Can you justify your point ?
OSS and ALSA are very different APIs. OSS is designed
for professional
software developers who should get their job done within tight
schedules. For this reason it has strong device abstraction. Everything
that could be automated has been automated. ALSA in turn is designed for
hackers (in the 1st place) who like to tweak every possible detail of
the hardware. This means there is practically no device abstraction and
the application should be more or less aware of the capabilities of the
hardware. Which API works better depends on the nature of the
application. This decision should not be driven by some political issues
as today.
And for my problem, what do you suggest ? (look at an another posted
mail )