[linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

[Marek Peteraj]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 23:43, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 17:32 -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > I'd rather not have people with this ignorant 'closed drivers = good'
> > opinion turning Linux into yet another Windows.
> 
> So Linus is ignorant, huh?  Have you thought about why he allows binary
> drivers?  He certainly could choose not to.

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/21/141225&tid=190&tid=106
See post by slux.

> 
> No one said they were good.  I just said it was better than no support
> at all, and whatever RME decides to do, they designed the hardware, it's
> THEIR CHOICE.  You can't expect people to respect your choice to GPL the
> code you write then bitch and moan when they decide to sell their
> hardware under terms that make sense to them.  If you don't like it then
> pardon my French but you can design your own fucking sound card.

I used to share this opinion. Once.

Marek