[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more

[Rick B]

R Parker wrote:

>Hi,
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>--- Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 11:20 +1100, Dan Harper wrote:
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>>>I will also make my official statement to all
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>>sound card manufacturers.
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>>>I will only buy sound cards that are fully
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>>operational with my operating
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>>>system of choice - Linux.
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>It seems we have three people that have made their
>official position known. That speaks volumes; very,
>very low volume. How many RME cards have been
>purchased by by Linux audio users? Maybe 50, 100 or
>200. That's not enough to purchase a years worth of
>toilet paper for a well fed family.
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>I know absolutely nothing about RME. I'm guessing
>there's an engineer who started the company and does
>at least %75 of all design work. I imagine the first
>thing he does when arriving at the office in the
>morning is check the phone messages, vacume the floor
>and empty the ashtrays. I suspect RME is a very small
>company and like every other small business in the
>world it's 30 days away from being bankrupt.
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>>I'm thinking - if someone could put together (and
>>maintain! that's the
>>hard part) a simple web page, containing just one
>>table with four
>>columns:
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>>1. Manufacturers of sound cards supported by Linux
>>2. Feed-back addresses and contacts for said
>>manufacturers
>>3. Manufacturers of sound cards not supported by
>>Linux (well, at least
>>the major players, there's no point in listing every
>>single microscopic
>>company)
>>4. Feed-back addresses and contacts of said
>>manufacturers
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>>Then, whenever a Linux user buys a card supported by
>>Linux, it would be
>>very simple to send a thank you to the respective
>>manufacturer ("hey
>>guys, i'm buying this card because it's supported by
>>Linux, thanks")
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>I think that's a great idea.
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>>send a f*** you to all manufacturers in column #3
>>("hey guys, i bought a
>>card made by XYZ instead of you, because your cards
>>are not supported by
>>Linux, no thanks").
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>I get as much juice from flippin the bird as the next
>guy but in this instance I think it would do more harm
>than good.
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>>Put that page on a prominent Linux multimedia site,
>>advertise it and
>>encourage everyone to use it. If thousands of people
>>do that, i betcha
>>we will see some changes.
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>Therein lies the problem, we do not number in the
>thousands. Well, according to the stats for
>subscribers to LAU and LAD there's a couple thousand
>of us. Our day in the sun hasn't arrived but I think
>it will because the energy of the LAU/LAD community is
>very positive.
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>Alwright, I'm as frustrated as anyone else and love
>flippin the bird. Count me in under one condition; we
>flip off someone from whom we want nothing. Deal?
>
>ron
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>>Florin Andrei
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>>http://florin.myip.org/
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I kind of got the impression that the annoucement was just pertaining to 
RME *Firewire* audio interfaces. Are they stopping Linux driver support 
for all of their products?

                     Rick B