30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
7:31 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:32, Dave Robillard wrote:
Ditto. A closed driver is not fine at all. It's
worse than no driver
at all, since it sets a /very/ dangerous precedent. (If you don't think
it's a dangerous precedent you just have no foresight and havn't
actually thought about the implications at all)
If you want to use proprietary drivers, go use Windows or Mac OS or
Solaris or whatever suits you.... seriously. Both Windows and MacOS are
extremely superior in terms of support for Audio hardware (and
software). Go use them. The solitary reason to use Linux you clearly
don't care about so... why use it? It just doesn't make sense.
I'd rather not have people with this ignorant 'closed drivers = good'
opinion turning Linux into yet another Windows. If you want a sh***y
proprietary OS, there's plenty to choose from already. Do the rest of
us a favour and don't advocate turning Linux into yet another one.
Jeez Dave, think you could insult some more people? I won't purchase a
firewire device from RME because it's not supported at all. On the
other hand I will continue to recommend buying NVIDIA video cards at
work for our Linux systems because there is no alternative. I have to
have 3D acceleration and there is no other choice. Would you rather I
stopped supporting Linux (drop a couple of hundred Linux systems) where
I work and just let them all use Windoze? This may be a religion for
you and Marek but it's not for me. Just as I don't appreciate having
some one bang on my door and tell that I should believe what they
believe I don't like it much in print either. Your point of view has
been heard, you don't need to be obnoxious about it.
Jan