25 Nov
2004
25 Nov
'04
5:20 a.m.
R Parker wrote:
Hi,
--- Florin Andrei <florin(a)andrei.myip.org> wrote:
I kind of got the impression that the annoucement was just pertaining to
RME *Firewire* audio interfaces. Are they stopping Linux driver support
for all of their products?
Rick B
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 11:20 +1100, Dan Harper
wrote:
It seems we have three people that have made their
official position known. That speaks volumes; very,
very low volume. How many RME cards have been
purchased by by Linux audio users? Maybe 50, 100 or
200. That's not enough to purchase a years worth of
toilet paper for a well fed family.
I know absolutely nothing about RME. I'm guessing
there's an engineer who started the company and does
at least %75 of all design work. I imagine the first
thing he does when arriving at the office in the
morning is check the phone messages, vacume the floor
and empty the ashtrays. I suspect RME is a very small
company and like every other small business in the
world it's 30 days away from being bankrupt.
I will also make my official statement to all
sound card manufacturers.
I will only buy sound cards that are fully
operational with my operating
>system of choice - Linux.
>
> I'm thinking - if someone could put together
(and
maintain! that's the
hard part) a simple web page, containing just one
table with four
columns:
1. Manufacturers of sound cards supported by Linux
2. Feed-back addresses and contacts for said
manufacturers
3. Manufacturers of sound cards not supported by
Linux (well, at least
the major players, there's no point in listing every
single microscopic
company)
4. Feed-back addresses and contacts of said
manufacturers
Then, whenever a Linux user buys a card supported by
Linux, it would be
very simple to send a thank you to the respective
manufacturer ("hey
guys, i'm buying this card because it's supported by
Linux, thanks")
I think that's a great idea.
and
send a f*** you to all manufacturers in column #3
("hey guys, i bought a
card made by XYZ instead of you, because your cards
are not supported by
Linux, no thanks").
I get as much juice from flippin the bird as the next
guy but in this instance I think it would do more harm
than good.
Put that page on a prominent Linux multimedia
site,
advertise it and
encourage everyone to use it. If thousands of people
do that, i betcha
we will see some changes.
Therein lies the problem, we do not number in the
thousands. Well, according to the stats for
subscribers to LAU and LAD there's a couple thousand
of us. Our day in the sun hasn't arrived but I think
it will because the energy of the LAU/LAD community is
very positive.
Alwright, I'm as frustrated as anyone else and love
flippin the bird. Count me in under one condition; we
flip off someone from whom we want nothing. Deal?
ron
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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