23 Dec
2006
23 Dec
'06
2:06 a.m.
On 12/21/06, M P Smoak <smoak(a)mis.net> wrote:
On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:47 pm, Paul Davis
wrote:
I don't follow that last part. I agree, SoundBlaster is embarrassing,
but they have the supply for a demand. Should hardware be free too?
Should everything be free?
its deeply pathetic, and i think that intel
should be absolutely
ashamed of what they have done. even creative did a better job than
this, without even trying to: the SB16 was a standard; not very good,
but a standard nevertheless.
--p
and deeply confining too. Users, mostly "consumers", relegated to being
listeners and viewers of the creations of others. Not allowed to record
or produce, just consume. But, Wow: they've got the Latest and
Greatest.
And the foss folks walk on by, hardly seeing ...