14 Dec
2004
14 Dec
'04
4:20 a.m.
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 13:45 -0600, Rick Taylor wrote:
Why does it matter?
Lee
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 12:31 am, Lee Revell
wrote:
RME is a _hardware_ company. They won't release specs or an open source
driver because it would give the competition too much information about
their _hardware_.
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 12:03 +0100, Esben Stien
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.
"Cooperation" like "open source"?
Christ, what
the fuck country do you live in? Don't you understand the
concept of people having bills to pay? Or do you just assume the RME
guys are independenly wealthy and just design sound cards for fun?
Sheesh.
Lee
What would happen if you didn't have "bills to pay"?