There are lots of reasons right now for not switching straight to ALSA. One
of which is that 2.2 is weeks away. The switching away from OSS is already in
hand.
> advertises a proprietary freedom-subtracted software package as the
> remedy for its limitations.
The current kernel OSS is no longer maintained by Hannu, and despite your
comments I still have a lot of respect for the free software Hannu produced
and the contribution he continued to make to the free one. I don't think you
can criticize Hannu and applaud ghostscript at the same time.
> for proprietary software, it gives the whole community an unfortunate
> message--not the sort of message will inspire people to write
> additional free drivers.
That is definitely true. Since I took over the OSS-free code and the soundcore
(the module that allows you to mix OSS-free, non OSS and ALSA (in theory anyway)
modules people have written ES1370/ES1371/SonicVibes/Wavefront/TB/ES18xx drivers
and there are people working on more free drivers.
Alan
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