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Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS releasedUbuntu 8.04.1 LTS releasedPosted Jul 4, 2008 15:26 UTC (Fri) by joib (guest, #8541)In reply to: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released by wertigon Parent article: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released
OSS had their chance years ago, and blew it [*]. For better or worse, we're stuck with ALSA for the foreseeable future. [*] Open sourcing OSS and replacing OSS/Free with it before ALSA gathered steam.
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Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 18:34 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] Wait, why are we stuck with it? Are you saying that OSS people were jerks back then and now we're going to punish them by continuing to ignore their software?
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 4, 2008 19:31 UTC (Fri) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link] No, I'm not saying they should be "punished". Actually, I find the idea of Linux users somehow collectively deciding to punish OSS by using ALSA because they've been bad to us in the past as somehow hilariously absurd. What I'm saying is that there is a cost to switch, and while I don't claim any particular expertise in either ALSA or OSS, if not anything else, the lukewarm reception to OSS being finally being open sourced suggests that it's not good enough (compared to ALSA + the cost of transitioning) to be worth bothering about, now that the Linux world has more or less completely transitioned to ALSA. Now, back before ALSA was around, if they had open sourced OSS then I suspect it's likely it would have been the default choice, and perhaps ALSA would never have been born. But that's not how things turned out.
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