[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Card Support

[Simon Jenkins]

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:12 +0200, Jussi Laako wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 15:16 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
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>>>And I posted a [possibly OT] rant to that thread about how this was a
>>>waste of time and how you could REALLY make a killing with open sound
>>>hardware.
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>>I've been doing hardware design and device driver development as part of
>>my day work. Designing open source hardware is possible in theory, but I
>>can't see who would pay the expenses of the development.
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>OK maybe you would not make a killing.  I guess the real question is if
>every LAU buys it, then how much do you need to make on each unit to be
>worthwhile?
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There's no law against providing windows & mac drivers for it too.

Simon Jenkins