Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software (was: Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?)

2005-06-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Sorry, an 'awesome' product > that truly wanted to support linux would support alsa, esd, > and arts sound APIs at a minimum. Yes, that's right. Or at least being an ALSA instead of an OSS client so one has the chance to use DMIX for software mixing. They have choosen OSS because it was

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software (was: Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?)

2005-06-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Taken from the Skype End User License Agreement (http://www.skype.com/company/legal/eula/) --- QUOTE --- Article 4. Permission to Utilize 4.1 Permission to utilize Your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, You hereby grant permission for the Skype So

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software

2005-06-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: > So, from what you just said and the previous comments on this thread, I > can assume that Skype only supports the obsolete OSS API for sound? > Sorry, an 'awesome' product that truly wanted to support linux would > support alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Commercial software (was: Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?)

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
Ralph Slooten wrote: > The only real issues (sound) I have come across with users are mainly > Gentoo users who use the ebuilds, which in term uses a self-created > sound-wrapper file which unfortunately does not work with everyone. So, from what you just said and the previous comments on this t