On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 01:49, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:38 +0100, Marek Peteraj wrote: > > 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. 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
