10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
12:08 p.m.
Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
As many of you already know, SuSE has entered into an interesting 5-year
plan with Microsoft. You can find the details on Slashdot and
elsewheres, so I won't rehash them here.
What isn't mentioned is the ALSA/SuSE connection. I'm pretty sure some
of the ALSA developers read these lists, and I'd like to hear from them
regarding the significance of their employer's new connections and
ALSA's IP and its continued development. Is this marriage happy news for
Linux sound or is it an unholy alliance signifying doom and destruction
for the world at large (and not just the Linux audio community ;) ?
Or will things just cruise along in business-as-usual mode ?
Any and all insight vastly appreciated.
Let's put this whole thing as a mental graph.
SUSE has brought us ALSA and KDE support.
Novell bought SUSE.
MS accepts a (bilateral?) deal from Novell to make (old on new) Novell's
customers happier, at least on the midterm (5 years).
OTOH there's insiders among us that can speak for themselves.
Now comes my personal thought:
I will still do prefer openSUSE as my Linux distro of choice, and will
do pass the message. But, ...be warned. At the slightest hint that ALSA
and KDE is getting behind the community idea, I will step ahead (i.e flee :)
But again, mind you, I have no problem in doing it all in the LFS way :D
Cheers.
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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