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

Rob lau at kudla.org
Tue Nov 30 10:51:12 EST 2004


On Tuesday 30 November 2004 08:30, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> Lots of people stop eating meat or send letters to food
> producers insisting that they comply with vegetarian
> principles. As a result, there are many food products having a
> 'suitable for vegetarians' sticker on them.The fight over
> revealing ingredients was aslo one such fight.

Unfortunately, that's a poor analogy as manufacturers only list 
ingredients because they're required to do so by law.  Much as 
it'd tickle me to see proprietary software made illegal, I think 
that would be a very bad idea.

However, I do think that pro audio is a small enough market 
(compared to other computer hardware, or for that matter food ;) 
) that keeping after the companies with POLITE letters 
explaining that you'd love to (use|continue to use) their 
products but you can't because they don't work with your OS will 
eventually cause one of them to release specs and/or a Linux 
driver.

Whatever happened to Echo anyway?  I still have the announcement 
from last year posted to this very list saying they'd shared 
their specs with the ALSA guys or something to that effect.  A 
studio-owning friend of mine swears by their stuff and I'd 
recommend it to other people too if I knew there were decent 
drivers.

Rob





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