On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 13:45 -0600, Rick Taylor wrote: > On Tuesday 14 December 2004 12:31 am, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 12:03 +0100, Esben Stien wrote: > > > Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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"? > 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_. > > 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"? Why does it matter? Lee
