LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio

njs, Hannu's the guy who wrote OSS, took it private to try to extract money, and is now acting surprised that nobody's interested in using it (even the BSDs, which are OSSish by legacy but still have rewrites: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound )

He can safely be ignored.

That said, I do wish ALSA wasn't such a mess. I'm hoping GStreamer and Phonon become the de facto application APIs so app writers don't have to care about the slipperly kernel sound APIs anymore.