On 12/21/06, M P Smoak <smoak@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:47 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> > its deeply pathetic, and i think that intel should be absolutely
> > ashamed of what they have done. even creative did a better job than
> > this, without even trying to: the SB16 was a standard; not very good,
> > but a standard nevertheless.
> >
> > --p
>
> and deeply confining too. Users, mostly "consumers", relegated to being
> listeners and viewers of the creations of others. Not allowed to record
> or produce, just consume. But, Wow: they've got the Latest and
> Greatest.
>
> And the foss folks walk on by, hardly seeing ...
I don't follow that last part. I agree, SoundBlaster is embarrassing,
but they have the supply for a demand. Should hardware be free too?
Should everything be free?
Received on Sat Dec 23 08:15:01 2006
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