[linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-14 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
After a few days of careful consideration, I've decided that I no longer want to be involved in developing software for Linux. It's been a difficult decision to make, having used Linux as my main desktop OS for around 10 years now, but I feel that the community as a whole is going in a direction

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-14 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Binary drivers make the kernel impossible to debug, and if the kernel devs created such a DBI, vendors would stop releasing open source drivers and pretty soon Linux would be no more stable than Windows. Why should Linux sacrifice stability

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-14 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:34 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: I think you misread my technical statement as a political one. I don't care about politics or the GPL, I just want Linux to be the most stable OS, and that can't happen if secret blobs of code are allowed to scribble all over kernel

[linux-audio-dev] Regarding nekobee et al

2007-03-21 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
Firstly, I'd like to apologise for acting like a total arse about this. It wasn't originally my intention to remove the site, but then a slip of the finger with fdisk during my Nth reinstall that day kind of put paid to it. The site and svn repository were backed up the day before, thanks to