30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
1:44 p.m.
Not the ALSA driver, just the specs. To me.
And why would anyone do this? What do they gain? 1 (potentially) happy
customer? And a risk that you'll give the info away and
whatever their
secret is will be out of the bag.
Their secret is 0.3ms away from the secrets of others. And those 0.3 ms
can't even be guaranteed.
There's no value for them in doing this. If they don't want the
ingredients for their secret sauce known by other burger makers then
you cannot release the driver as Open Source, can you?
I think there's a difference between an ALSA driver and detailed
documentation. Anyway, it's possible to rip someone's IP off no matter
how well protected it is. I think it's been proved numberous times
throughout the history of digital era.
It only helps
you and not the community at large.
Seems like. OTOH everyone's talking about FW. So it doesn't seem like.
;)
But let's look at it from the card manufacturers perspective. He wasn't
involved in the community for several years, doesn't know its evolution,
nuances etc. He takes a look here, sees a few people saying "we're just
10 people here, guys let's give up anyway, it's not worth it".
Consequences are worse because there's little action going on.
Perhaps i'd be nice to start a petition of all rme and maudio users. But
we'd need to widely promote such activity so that we can reach almost
every rme or maudio / linux audiop user in the world.
Go for it. I'll sign up, depending on what the petition actually says.
I won't take part in threatening RME or any other company. Never if it
comes to corporations.
They either:
1. ignore you if their position is strong enough(sometimes even if they
have no such position, but there are successful and unsuccessful
companies)
2. accept your requirements
Wow! It appears that there are very few options in your world. is just
boosting their egos so that they can show you their finger next time you
need something. It happens always.
To you? always? Hmm.