[Openal] sexy OpenAL sound logo needed!

steve sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Sun Nov 26 08:02:42 PST 2006


Jonas Johansson wrote:
> That is a pretty cool idea. I haven't though of it before.

It's a terrible idea.  Players of the game *HATE* that kind
of annoying crap.  nVidia do it in order to promote their
hardware which they sell to their end users.  OpenAL would
do it...why?

We wouldn't be selling anything to end users - our 'market'
is the game authors and I think they'll find out about OpenAL
in other ways.

It's bad enough when advertisers cram adverts down our
throats for "good" reasons - there is absolutely no justification
for doing it for no reason at all.

It bloats the package, it's more to maintain and more to go
wrong, it has no redeeming features whatever.

One of the wonderful things about OpenSource is that we can
be "the good guys" - we don't have to do these kinds of terrible
things to our end-users.




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