19 Dec
2004
19 Dec
'04
8:16 a.m.
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 19:01, Rick Taylor wrote:
I know. :)
On Saturday 18 December 2004 10:48 pm, Marek Peteraj
wrote:
Absolutely agreed. However, judging from a year old discussion, it seems
theres no consensus to do this at least for linux audio.
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 14:56, Rick Taylor wrote:
It's too bad there's no way to notify all linux users of something... like a
newsticker for administrative issues, security announcements and so on.
It just makes sense that if linux as a whole is going to maximize its
capabilities that it be organized. Is there anyplace where you get stats and
demographics as to the number
of RME users on linux? Maybe if you could approach them with concrete
numbers?
In case of RME this wouldn't be that accurate since there don't seem to
be that many people who are willing to participate on a market research
type project(enter your name and type of card). The forum thread didn't
go above 30 posts, but there were many RME users who participated in the
RME thread on lad/lau, which in turn didn't participate in the forum
thread, and a rough search through the lad archives revealed another
dozen of RME users(haven't tried lau and ardour dev/user lists). There
are people who bought 2 products from RME. And there are many people
outside lad/lau which do use linux audio and probably RME hardware(so
such project would need to be broadly announced, /. and similar).
The ATI numbers are pretty accurate though (the ATI petition). Copyright
isn't the issue here. The issue here is basically - someone
does work he doesn't get paid for, and another one profits from such
work.
I meant RMEs copyright to their firmware/drivers. It's the only thing really
keeping you from just using that code. If folk could give them a reason to go
open source with it I'm sure they'd let go of it or write linux firmware and
work with developers to get compatible software put together.
This is different for specifications, drivers and firmware.
In case of firmware, the are probably more hurdles than just the wish to
stay proprietary, since there are no free devtools for for most fpgas,
dsps and such.
In case of specs or drivers, they are free to do what rme did with
fireface or what audioscience usually does with their own products.
It all becomes a moral issue right now.
{I don't see
why they'd not want to pay folk to write linux firmware. {open source or not}
Apparently they don't realize how many linux users they have.
But it seems ridiculous to me that a typical company isn't tracking
every opportunity to generate revenue.
Marek