7 Jun
2006
7 Jun
'06
10:56 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:49 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 04:50 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
But... what if... they didn't use ALSA? It's been known to happen.
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glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and
this we should do freely and generously."
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Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:32 -0400, Lee Revell
wrote:
Closed source applications are perfectly OK. A closed source ALSA
driver violates the GPL.
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:08 -0400, Jordan Nash
wrote:
Why do you assume this? There are plenty of closed-source
applications and drivers running on top of Linux.
According to the May 2006 edition of Pro Audio
Review (Page 12, Column
1, Paragraph 3), the Midas XL8 Digital Console uses Linux: "Like many
other devices these days, the XL8 is built on a Linux platform, which
has proven to be both stable and secure, compared to other common
operating systems."
Any idea what audio interface it uses and where the source code can be
downloaded?
I just thought that it was a bit interesting.
Anyone want to take bets
on how long it will be before DigiDesign switches over? ;-)
That would be great, it would require them to open source their drivers.