13 Dec
2004
13 Dec
'04
3:48 a.m.
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 02:50, tim hall wrote:
Last Sunday 12 December 2004 22:44, Marek Peteraj was
like:
I had the feeling that everyone was joking, perhaps i was wrong?
Let me try another one ;)
People at RME will be scared if they see how much people talk about them
not releasing specs. They will finally realise that there is a huge
linux audio market.(in the meantime, we should at least learn how to
change the subject lines ;).
Marek
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 21:07, tim hall wrote:
A truism is something too obviously true, cliched or which repeats itself in
the making. Five years ago I'd have stared at you open mouthed if you'd told
me any of those things were possible. You misunderstood my point completely.
Last Sunday 12 December 2004 18:57, Mark Knecht
was like:
And 5 years ago you'd tell me that linux audio, alsa(a well designed
driver infrastructure that is incorporated in the linux kernel), jack(a
server that is able interconnect your favorite audio applications,
letting audio flow from one app to the other at low latencies), ardour(a
non-linear non-destructive audio editor that offers unlimited number of
audio tracks, is able to handle plugins with latency compensation and
offers automation including plugin parameter autiomation),
linuxsampler(a sampler that is able to handle 100+ voices of >1Gb
samples, although still in very alpha development phase), ... is truism.
And 15 years ago you would tell me that something like linux is truism.
C'mon guys, give me a break ;) On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:55:05 -0600, Jan Depner
<eviltwin69(a)cableone.net>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 09:17, Mark Knecht
wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:03:40 +0100, Esben Stien
> > <executiv(a)online.no>
wrote:
> > > Frank Barknecht
<fbar(a)footils.org> writes:
> > > > So basically they want to protect their investment in getting
> > > > knowledge of how to implement a powerful firewire interface
> > > > from the eyes of other hardware manufacturers.
> > >
> > > A society where you put money higher than cooperating with other
> > > people is not a good society, in my opinion.
> >
> > Socialism - it ain't pretty...
>
> Really. I was going to point out that that is exactly what Karl Marx
> (or was that Groucho) said. You can see how well that worked out.
>
> Jan
Groucho was a genius. Not so sure about Karl.
Of course, I should have added that he has a right to his opinion, but
so do I. I believe in patents, intellectual property, and the right of
a corporation to deceptively market products to me in an attempt to
get my money. I do not believe companies owe me anything, whether I've
given them money or not, and Santa Claus.
LOL!
If they've successfully conned you thus far, why stop at Santa Claws?
Putting cooperation above money is a noble ideal, I actually fail to
understand why anyone would disagree with it. That's not to say we should
be naive about market forces, but there's no need to wheel out tired old
truisms in their defence. I do uphold your right to be horribly misled,
however. ;-)