Is Aureal Dead?

nuntius asks: "I went over to Aureal's Homepage to check for any news drivers, but all I saw was talk of the resignation of all senior staff/executives and talk of Chapter 11. What's happening? When did I miss this?" Looking at the state of Aureal's site, and the plethora of 404's, the obvious conclusion is, at the very least, that things are not going well. It's a shame. Aureal looked to be doing some pretty neat things for the state of Linux Multimedia. Can anyone shed some light on what is going on and whether the company has a future?

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Re:Aureal is all but dead

[FigWig]

Good products can fail because of poor management

Not to mention frivolous lawsuits by behemoths like Creative. Those bastards were so use to sitting on their laurels that they tried to crush the superior technology that Aureal developed. The Vortex chip is awesome, far superior to the EAX system that is on the SBLives. It actually does wave tracing to calculate 3d sounds, while EAX just adds reverb and other cheesy effects. EAX can sound pretty good if done right, but A3D sounds awesome. If only the Linux drivers would be open sourced (I think the web site promised this before the company fell apart), I would be a happy man.