On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 21:02, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:56:03PM +0100, Esben
Stien wrote:
Alfons Adriaensen
<fons.adriaensen(a)alcatel.be> writes:
For the same reasons, there would be no need to
upgrade your Linux
version, and you don't need driver updates. The current closed-source
driver will still work in 5 years.
Now, you're twisting everything to fit a twisted view. Software is
changed much more often than hardware.
Yes. And you can't expect a manufacturer of a e.g. soundcard to update
all drivers each time you or any other customer decide to upgrade his
system. If *you* modify your system and thereby make an existing driver
useless, then it's up to *you* to find a solution,
which in case of an opensource driver would be to change a code here and
there to make it work...
maybe by providing a
compatibility interface in your new system. You can't expect others to
pay for the consequences of your decisions. A manufacturer will adapt
to a new system if that is in his interest, otherwise not.
Paul, Jan, Fons, and others. I believe that you should switch your
software to proprietary and make a living out of it. Because in that
case your reasoning would be perfectly valid.
Marek
Marek! Come on.. I'm sure you're trying to prove some point, but
nothing good can possibly come from suggesting people switch their
projects over to a proprietary licensing scheme.
I, for one, greatly appreciate the contributions of the above to the
world of free audio software - regardless of what opinions they may (or
may not) have about proprietary hardware drivers in Linux.
There is exactly one way to further the advancement of Free Software -
write it. A line of code is worth a million words.
-DR-