18 Dec
2004
18 Dec
'04
10:48 p.m.
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 14:56, Rick Taylor wrote:
On Saturday 18 December 2004 09:59 am, Marek Peteraj
wrote:
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).
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 01:49, Lee Revell wrote:
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? On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:38 +0100, Marek Peteraj
wrote:
An open source driver isn't the same thing as open source software other
than both being open source. From the companies' perspective, an open
source driver is likely going to be the cause for a higher revenues
these days(although some people may think that the numbers would not be
that interesting still, assume it's ~100 for RME and ~20000 for newer
ATI cards, although i think it's a higher number). Still no investement
has been made into developing and supporting such drivers. Instead, the
oss devs are doing that kind of work basically for free(perhaps they get
one free unit), as a service for the companies. I think it's pretty much
unfair.
Marek Is there a difference between you getting paid by
RME or any other
company for doing a closed or open source driver?
I would work on an open driver for free (well, someone would have to
give me the hardware) because like many others I feel that working on
open source software is its own reward. 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