[linux-audio-user] Re: Choosing a pro mobile firewire card

[Petter Sundlöf]

Arnold Krille wrote:
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>> Any feedback on RME's Fireface cards or other options?
> 
> RME's FW-devices aren't supported.
> 
> But why don't you combine the OSX-hardware-support with the
> opensource-software? Good thing about free software is that it isn't
> limited to linux. And there are ardour- and jack-packages for OSX
> available and probably for a lot of other free music software too...
> 
> Arnold

I don't fully understand why'd you'd want to embrace free software on 
the one hand with SOME applications, and regress back to proprietary 
software for the OS, drivers and other applications?