On Saturday 18 December 2004 09:59 am, Marek Peteraj wrote: > 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 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? I somehow doubt they care all that much about their copyright... If you could show them concrete benefits... -- www.RTaylor-Design.Com
