Opinion on Vista and Dapper delays

[Andrew Zajac]

On 4/10/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
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> The actual softmodem is implemented in a userspace daemon like slmodemd,
> which may be open or closed source.
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> IOW, having an ALSA driver for a given modem is not enough to use it.
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> Lee


You are correct;  that's what I meant by "both open and closed source
drivers."

Again, AFAIK, the slmodemd is open source, but not licenced under the GPL.
Only the slmodem kernel module contains a precompiled binary portion.  For
Smart Link to plan to ditch their support for their binary kernel module in
favor of the alsa kernel module seems to me to be a step in the right
direction.

Also, the last time I looked, the intel 536/537 modem drivers did not
contain any .o files, so they seem to be fully open-source, too, although
not close to being GPLed.

But the point is that there is more for modem-using linux users than just
Linuxant.
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