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Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code

Posted by timothy on from the intelligent-move dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a move that's a win for the free software community, Creative Labs has decided to release their binary Linux driver for the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium sound cards under the GPL license. This is coming after several failed attempts at delivering a working binary driver and years after these sound cards first hit the market."

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  1. At last! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is great news! With proper sound card driver support maybe 2009 will finally be the year of the Linux desktop!

  2. Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can play all those great games that got built on top of the open-source ID engines!