[linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

Dave Robillard drobilla at connect.carleton.ca
Thu Dec 2 06:27:35 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-12 at 20:48 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >The point is not that someone might reverse engineer and do a
> >worse/better oss driver. The point is that nvidia, ati, xgi, matrox
> >*should* do open source drivers.
> 
> The point is that nobody has persuaded them of this, and in the matrox
> case, they actually went backwards, from our perspective. These
> companies cannot be shown to be incorrect, all we can say is that they
> have a different perspective on the world than we do. Their different
> perspective might make you want to boycott them, or try to change
> their minds. If boycott is your thing, end of story.
> 
> Otherwise, given the apparent absence of a benign, GPL-friendly deity
> who will change their minds on our behalf, the question would seem to
> be can they be convinced, and if so how? Does anybody think that the
> attitude that Marek and Dave R. have offered might work? I, for one,
> do not. Actually, I am not actually sure that they can be convinced,
> which makes it all a bit irrelevant.
> 
> --p
> 

Well Paul, I don't your attitude in that last sentence would work very
well either.  But you're not talking to RME right now trying to get
specs/drivers, and neither am I.

-DR-




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