I have sent an email to this list recently regarding the Gravis
soundcards. Gravis has decided to discontinue support for their
soundcards and in a previous email I proposed for people to send an
email to custserv@gravis.com and few people have let me know that they
have indeed done this, I did it myself too, and I got a reply from a
company called 'Kensington' that very shortly stated 'no, we will not
release source code'.
I've had some contact with a Gravis representative through email and
he himself was rather displeased with this harsh attitude. He suggested
that I try and get more people to email and that hopefully eventually
somebody would throw this up in the organisation and that the number of
requests may actually change their mind. So this is a new request for
Linux enthusiasts to email to custserv@gravis.com. Please also do so if
you're not the owner of a Gravis card (read the example carefully).
Sample email: (please try to be polite, do not try to irritate anybody,
this would serve no purpose. The goal of sending this email is to send
Gravis a substantially large amount of emails to motivate them to
release the source code of their drivers)
Greets,
Fred Leeflang
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Sample email
email to: custserv@gravis.com
Hello,
I am a Linux user. Linux is a free Operating System for PC's that
strongly relies on the cooperation of hardware vendors to fully support
their hardware. The Linux user community has a substantial amount of
Gravis users ,and your recent decision to discontinue your soundcard
support leaves a large group of people who have always been satisfied
Gravis users out there in the cold. From an earlier message I have
understood that Gravis, now through Kensington and indirectly through
ACCO World, has decided NOT to release source code of Gravis utilities
that could very much benefit the Linux user community. I kindly ask you
to reconsider this decision.
Friendly Regards,
<yourname>