Actual blog posting: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_ju... Okay

Actual blog posting: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_ju... Okay, does anyone even use OSS anymore? I thought it hasn't been included in kernels for a while. (save for the OSS->ALSA compatibility layer) As for there being a large variety of user-space libraries: are we supposed to believe this to be a bad thing? In the past, we've needed sound servers, which have become pretty much entirely unnecessary as ALSA can do mixing, etc. (except for JACK, but even Windows has a completely different set of kernel audio drivers for professional sound recording) These choices and the eventual elimination of some of them are a good thing: it means the better technology (as judged by developers & users) wins, not some decree. I don't know what other unix-derived OSes use, (OSS?) but on Linux-only libraries, I suspect OSS support will eventually disappear. Now, of course Adobe would complain about this, as their plugin has to run on all possibly imaginable systems out of the box; there's no open-source component that interfaces with the hardware drivers so that the community could fix obscure problems themselves.