19 Dec
2004
19 Dec
'04
2:03 a.m.
On Saturday 18 December 2004 10:48 pm, Marek Peteraj wrote:
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. {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.
Maybe it's just not worth their while. I don't know how many linux users there
are. I don't know what percentage of their sales is to linux users.
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www.RTaylor-Design.Com
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. Personally, I'd like to have gnu gnus
flash across my taskbar a few times a day... It would be nice to be able to
stay updated that way.
Maybe folk wouldn't mind filling in the occasional survey. If they don't know
about it though it doesn't work. I'm sure you'd get a relatively huge
response if folk did know.
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). I
somehow doubt they care all that much about their copyright...
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.
Marek