Well, Jaroslav Kysela and Takashi Iwai are both
employed by
SuSE, as is Matthias Nagorni. I think that might have
something to do with it...
In fact, concerning audio things, they've done much more than
anyone could have expected, I think.
BTW:
cat $(which alsaconf) | grep @
# written by Takashi Iwai <tiwai(a)suse.de>
# Bernd Kaindl <bk(a)suse.de>
# Jan ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj(a)salstar.sk>
Best regards
ce