Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [Fwd: Fw: Save OMS! Sauvez OMS! [ot]]
From: Francois Dechelle (Francois.Dechelle_AT_ircam.fr)
Date: ma marras 29 1999 - 03:33:14 EST
Thomas Hudson wrote:
>
> Francois Dechelle wrote:
> >
> > But there may be a good joke to do: building an emulation
> > of the OMS API using MidiShare (or another free MIDI
> > framework). This way, applications do not have to be modified
> > (which will anyway not happen because they are proprietary),
> > we don't care about Gibson and the MIDI framework is free.
> >
> > What do you think of this ?
> >
> This would probably be worth doing. Considering what
> I know about Gibson's reputation, it is highly unlikely
> that they would open OMS. It would be nice to see the
> API completely reimplemented as a result of their decision.
>
> I'm sure most ISV's would jump at the chance to move to
> a truly "open" OMS.
>
> Is it possible to get API specs?
>
> Thomas
About Gibson, it is quite sure that OMS will be killed.
So probably thinking of an open solution is safe.
I don't know about the OMS API specs, and there may be
problems here (like API license or NDA), but I'll ask
here if anyone has it. May be the API was public, after
all it is a kind of system library.
Francois
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