4 Dec
2004
4 Dec
'04
1:50 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:15 -0700, Doug Wellington wrote:
What is my other option for an 'open source friendly' firewire interface
with the capabilities of the fireface exactly? I sure would love to
know (seriously). If there was an equally capable open alternative I'd
be the first to go buy it and send RME an email telling them why I did
so. Done it before, and I'll do it again.
The question is not "why limit yourself". I am not limiting myself.
RME is limiting me. (In a way. Don't go there)
-DR-
Previously:
I'm not even going to justify that with a response - you're putting so
many words into my mouth it's ridiculous. If anyone says anything
defending RME, I said it's a personal attack (again myself)? Are you
serious?
Anyway, read the email you're replying to again, note it's purpose, and
decide if replying as you did was really a good idea. Enough. Please.
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? We would like
to be able to use RME's hardware to it's full extent.
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?