3 Dec
2004
3 Dec
'04
11:34 a.m.
I am not sure that providing opensource drivers is
risk free, and I am a huge
proponent of oss. You do not sound like a lawyer,
I am one.
Better luck
next time. ;)
I'd give it one more chance and post a 'rme - take action' letter to lad
and lau which would encourage people to go to the rme forum, tell them
that their using their hw, what kind of hw they have purchased and that
they would continue to do so in the future. But i fear that a lot of
people would just ignore it, thinking to themselves 'my vote doesn't
count, they will ignore it anyway, it's a waste of time, there's just 5
of us' or similar. I might be wrong. If somebody wants to encourage me
in doing this i'd be glad to do it. I'd also encourage to write polite
letters if that's what suits the majority here ;)
Politeness is almost always a better approach to get what you want. If we'd achieve a fairly large number - say
100, the consequences would
be either:
- RME reconsidering their decision
- raising interest of all the RME customers in linux audio, because
virtually everyone there is able to try it out on a "professional
level". Except the fireface users(minority still, since it's a new
device). which if successful, would most likely bring RME to reconsider
their postion anyway.
The number of interested people is not the only factor in RME's decision.
I would be surprised if a mere 100 people would have any impact at all. This
is not to say that I do not support such efforts, just be a little more
realistic with the expectations.
I could tell the same to you.
Marek