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Old 27th October 2008
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You keep trying to peddle OSS@FreeBSD, what makes that better then OpenBSD's existing framework? commits go in every day.. improving drivers, fixing bugs.. originally, OSS was proprietary.. many operating systems used the published API specifications and wrote wrappers to their already existing audio infrastructures.

Just because they open sourced the "real deal", doesn't mean everyone should drop their own codebase.. one they've maintained for years.. just because it'll make 5-6 people who can find the differences happy.

They have a compatibility layer, they have a native layer... and they have a new multiplexing layer.. many programs that have "audio support" also have support for backends.. as demonstrated by the recent SDL update, you can even switch between them at runtime.

Again, OSS was an API... people used that API to allow easy porting of applications, as a courtesy only..

If you still don't agree with this, fine.. but how is it any different from FreeBSD's implementation of OSS? why do you also assume it's better?

Eventually this will turn into a flame war, I don't want that.. to be fair, this is the OpenBSD section, and you are FreeBSD user, different philosophies are going to happen.. you're free to gloat about how better everything is in the other sections. (You know, the ones at the top of the forum index..).
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