Comment 120 for bug 579300

> 2) Since there is no plausible technical reason for disabling OSS, we must look elsewhere for the explanation.

This kind of thing, "deprecating" usually serves a psychological need of developers/managers, as a way of trying to eliminate something they see as evil, for whatever strange reason. We've seen it in GCC, breaking existing code, and (amazingly!) the newer ARM instruction sets.

It serves no purpose for the users of Ubuntu, having no effect whatever, except that of breaking half the software.

You remember how, in Toy Story 2, the penguin's voice box was broken? I saw it as a wry comment on Linux-based systems (on which the film was rendered) and how the audio support has been so flaky in the past. This decision renews that tradition... just when you thought audio had started working...