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Creative Labs and Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the support-our-OS-already! dept.

redemption wrote in to tell us that Creative Labs has a Soundblaster Developers page for Linux. Not much yet, but it looks like the start of support. Perhaps just as interesting is that redemption wrote in to tell us that 4Front has announced an Alpha (and very incomplete) driver for the SBlive.

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  1. Support for the Open Sound System vs. Kernel by Rayban · · Score: 4

    Why does there seem to be more support for the OSS package than for writing pure open-source kernel drivers for linux? If we're putting together a nice Linux box without paying for the OS, the Windowing system or any of the millions of programs we use, it starts to seem a little unfair when we need to pay for something as simple as a sound driver, when Creative Labs could just release the specs of their boards.

    I know that there are some chipset manufacturers that refuse to let companies like Creative release the chip specs, but does is this really a good business practice? I can't see a manufacturer holding an advantage over another by holding on to the specs. It might stop the practice of cloning, but Creative Labs wasn't hurt by this during the early 90's.

    Never trust a program you don't have the source to! :)

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