28 Sep
2014
28 Sep
'14
11 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Adrian Knoth wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Len Ovens
wrote:
So basically it just gives them total control of that eth port.
version available from another party). Yet
Focusrite sells a RedNet
PCIe card for around $800... one hopes it has more on it than an
ethernet port :) That looks like a sound card to the computer. This
Actually, it does not. It's a glorified DMA buffer attached to a
PTP-capable NIC/MAC. I've seen Ardour outputting to this card, and
I've briefly discussed
open-sourcing the driver at Frankfurt musikmesse in 2012. The 3rd party
vendor wasn't particularly reluctant, so if you want to give it a try,
feel free to reach out to them.
the third party may not mind, but the protocol is still licensable meaning
that the Linux user still would owe Audinate a fee to install the open
source driver. I don't have a big problem with that... but I would have a
problem being held responsible for all Linux users paying or not. In other
words, I would like not to be in the money chain at all.
My opinion is that Audinate should just accept that Linux is a major part
of the ecosystem and provide the linux driver at the same fee as the
others. I would like to think that the Linux community is trustworthy
enough to be willing to pay for as many licenses as needed even with a
source bundle. (a windows user could download one file and install 5 just
as easy)
Better (IMO) would be the RedNet box being open and loading a linux OS on
it. That would open up a lot more possibilities. In fact I could say that
about almost any hardware.
But then life would be a dream.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net