Creative Labs Seeking Linux Coder

Ryan wrote in to say "Apparently Creative Labs is looking to hire someone full-time to develop and write Linux kernel drivers for their audio products, as this posting to the linux-kernel mailing list shows. Specifically meantioned is the role of this person to grow a team of engineers to support Linux. I'm unsure if this team is in the OSS community, or internal to Creative. There is also meantion of ALSA, my favorite Linux sound system. Assuming the resulting drivers are available for free (even if only in binary format), everyone with a Creative sound card will win big."

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[diakka]

I don't know who was the first to do it, Adaptec maybe? But it is aparent that all the good companies are beginning to provide Linux support. If you think about it, this really makes sense. The Open Source model for drivers is perfect because the hardware company probably doesn't care about copying or piracy, and the increased quality of the drivers can only help hardware sales. The only possible downside is that they can't keep the programming info a secret. But in general i think companies only do this when they have cheesy hardware, like winmodems. Not because they developed some whiz bang product. I am extremely happy to see this trend catching on.
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