On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 23:21, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 16:22 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: > > Man, I've been waiting all day for someone to say this. Personally, > > open source is not a religion for me so a closed source driver would be > > fine and dandy. Let the flames commence - now where did I put my > > asbestos underwear? > > Eh, it's a slow day, I'm bored. But I mean it 100%. Flame away... > > So, the next question is, what would it take to make a closed source > driver happen? They should start the bidding on alsa-devel at "one free > FireFace"... Lee and Jan, i talk to you as an owner of fireface. :) I really like the philosophy of not letting any closed source drivers into the kernel. In the end i only saw people upset because their XY nvidia or ATI driver wasn't working. Besides they'd need to provide it themselves, which means a lot more money than just handing out documentation or perhaps one free unit. My point of view - either open source alsa driver, or i'll just sell that unit. And now that they have accused me of causing damage to RME specifically because of this thread, i can only say, i'll stay away from any of their products. Speaking of damage, i'd like to see a slashdot story about this so that 30.000 people can judge for themselves. :) The best bet would be to find a adat/smux card manufacturer which is able to release specs and keep the rest as far away from your pc as possible. :) Marek
