[linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

Marek Peteraj marpet at naex.sk
Fri Dec 3 21:00:17 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 19:15, Doug Wellington wrote:
> Previously:
> > All this mentioning of "belief" and "church" to degrade open source
> > people is no better than me calling you and RME Nazis.  Seems to be a
> > recurring theme that the person who presents the open source position
> > makes no personal attacks whatsoever, and someone who is okay with
> > proprietary drivers responds with personal attacks (both suggestively by
> > you to Marek and directly by Jan to myself).  Let's throw the name
> > calling aside please.  Anyway...
> >
> > There are very valid technical reasons why a closed piece of hardware is
> > a POS from a Linux user's perspective.
> 
> [Heehee...  Anyone else see the irony in this?]
> 
> So, it's ok for you to imply (in a previous email to Marek) that RME is
> fascist and (in this email) that their hardware is a POS, but if anyone
> else says anything defending them, that's a personal attack?

I think Dave was trying to point out something different. 

Besides, it's not a personal attack with regards to RME, simply because
RME is a legal entity. :) 

> There are a lot of things that I'd like to be able to do that I can't. 
> [SHRUG]  There are always other options.  Why limit yourself?

Could you give me one option for 10 analog i/os of 24/192, firewire?

I'm a linux user. :)

Marek




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