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OK, But since Thetaband Software only writes for OS/2 (cheer cheer) Who,  or
more precisely WHOM would they be competing with in the development and sale of
OS/2 Device Driver utilities  for creative Labs PCI sound cards?

Hate them as I do for their "Redmondesque" alliances, the new  Live Platinum
cards with the  I/O front panel is regrettably a One of a kind product, and very
desirable. I think the "no competition issue is more a problem for certain key
individuals having allegiance, or having had allegiance, to Crystal
semiconductor. No expert help and it's "goodbye little buddy" TBS on their own.
So why won't a crystal affiliated "boardwrapper" make a pumped up PCI product
with cool I/O options and make this a non-issue?

zeppelin wrote:

> Timur, I have had the pleasure of dealing with mr Pierre on other OS/2 sound
> issues (MMpack etc) and can only say that if (y'all) elect to publish
> drivers for Creative PCI cards that can only help the OS/2 situation
> (bunches and bunches,.... not to underestimate)
>
> I'd pay a fair price in a heartbeat.
>
> Perhaps I misunderstand your intent, but since there are NO O/2 drivers for
> Creative PCI cards how would this be anti- competitive or suicidal?
>
> The source code is freely available to anyone at various and sundry Linux
> sites, myself having given Julian a pointer to one such site months ago.
> ?    (?)
>
> Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> > In article <GmI%3.6937$VA6.33549@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> >   "Kerwin" <kerwinlu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I saw an article in Taiwan's OS/2 newsgroup as few weeks ago,
> > > they said that because Creative&Aureal released their driver source
> > code,
> > > one company called Theta Band Software decided
> > > that they are going to write OS/2 drivers for Creative&Aureal's chips.
> > > But they are not going to release the source code.
> > > And, if there are any other companies who want to write OS/2 drivers
> > for
> > > these chips,
> > > Thera Band Software will never write the OS/2 drivers again
> > anymore.....
> > >
> > > Does anybody know it's ture or not?
> >
> > It is, kinda.  TBS said they would look into writing a driver, but time
> > constraints from other projects would be an issue.  Everything else is
> > true, though.  Theta Band Software has a "no-compete" business model.
> > They don't release software that competes with other software.  In the
> > OS/2 market, releasing a product that competes with another product is
> > suicide.
> >
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> > Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@tabi.org
> >
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> > Before you buy.