[Openal] openal future

[Yvan Vander Sanden]

> I can understand feeling tricked, but I don't believe Creative ever said
> anything about supporting Linux.  Every driver release was pretty
> clearly marked as an "Unsupported" driver.  I'm not saying I don't want
> them to support it better, but I don't think there was any deception
> involved.  Heck, a quick scan of the forum or mailing lists should have
> warned you ahead of time  :-)

You see unsupported drivers for linux quite a lot. So if I check for
an available driver on the companies website before I buy the
hardware, that's now not enough anymore. I should also check forums to
see if the announced driver is actually any good. Ok, I'll have to
remind that.

> Creative never promised anything of the kind.  I've met a couple of the
> Creative folks personally, and there was never any business decision
> made to support Linux.


The internet archive shows otherwise. Of course you won't see the
announcement nowadays, but they promised one in 2006.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061214142854/http://opensource.creative.com/




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