On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 18:12, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:31:01 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > > > > 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 > > Damn, was I really able to stir up such a hornet's nest with just 4 words? ;-) > > Esben Stein expressed his opinion. That's totally cool. He expressed > it much more politically on the RME forum. Not sure what that means or > why he chose to do that. I thought it wise to be polite to RME. Honey > vs. vinegar. > > It seems to me that many people involved in Open Source think that > business should operate financially as Open Source operates. Business > should just give things away, no matter what it cost them to develop > it and no matter what the company might be able to get for it in the > future. *Nobody* is telling them to GIVE AWAY hardware. > > Personally I think that there are probably way more shareholders in > RME than there are Linux audio people that *might* buy an RME Fireface > 800. No. > It seems to me that this is a tough idea for people who are so used to > getting everything for free. Do you *really* think that people are here because they want beer for free? They could happily use pirated software for instance. > (Read Open Source users or folks in some > countries.) Could you please show me the country where people get everything for free? Marek
