30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
11:56 a.m.
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 08:30, Marek Peteraj wrote:
Lots of people stop eating meat or send letters to
food
producers insisting that they comply with vegetarian
principles. As a result, there are many food products having a
'suitable for vegetarians' sticker on them.The fight over
revealing ingredients was aslo one such fight.
Unfortunately, that's a poor analogy as manufacturers only list
ingredients because they're required to do so by law. Much as
it'd tickle me to see proprietary software made illegal, I think
that would be a very bad idea.
However, I do think that pro audio is a small enough market
(compared to other computer hardware, or for that matter food ;)
) that keeping after the companies with POLITE letters
explaining that you'd love to (use|continue to use) their
products but you can't because they don't work with your OS will
eventually cause one of them to release specs and/or a Linux
driver.
Whatever happened to Echo anyway? I still have the announcement
from last year posted to this very list saying they'd shared
their specs with the ALSA guys or something to that effect. A
studio-owning friend of mine swears by their stuff and I'd
recommend it to other people too if I knew there were decent
drivers.
Rob