Sounblaster and Linux a bad combination

This post is directly aimed to the Creative Staff.?Recently i began an interest in Linux(Ubuntu). To my big suprise you the biggest soundcard company in the world doesent support Linux on any of your cards!?I know ALSA supports a couple of old cards but not whith the soundquality it deserves and no Open AL and EAX support. To give support for an closed source Linux Driver would be in your best interest. Its common knowledge in the Linux forums that if you run Linux dont buy an SB card. Isnt it your objecti've to sell as many cards as possible?By excluding millions of of potential SB buyers? just because their operating system of choice happens to be Linux. Is that a good marketing plan?Linux Users is forced to buy cards of your competitors which by the way almost all of them support Linux!?Please make that change?Creative because your cards are awesome but only if you run Windows.
To the Linux users who are reading this let them know what you think so they finally chance their minds!
Message Edited by Linuxanders on 02-22-200705:0 PM

"Buy cards by it competitioners." LOL. Its not worth the money i think. I have heard: in second quartal 2007 a properitary Linux driver will be released.

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