> "Hey, we're on Slashdot, we're depicted as the big bad monopolist who > keeps all their technology proprietary and does not let poor Open Source > folks play with their toys." Nothing like that happened. It's just so that people are informed and warned so that they don't end up with $1500 worth of useless hardware(unless you install windows). > "Really? Did MOTU get the same kind of bad publicity?" > "No." Yes, from the start. Just as any other company that didn't or doesn't support open source. > "Well, i guess this is the reward for being nice guys and involving > ourselves with the Open Source stuff. We won't repeat this mistake, i > hope everyone else in the industry learned the lesson as well." > > Don't get me wrong, i'd love to see an Open Source driver for the > Fireface. But if it's true that it would reveal too much info, then i > understand them. And honestly i don't understand you. Go to the audioscience site, have a look in the drivers section and look who does the drivers. And they could have had their super-duper tradesecrets aswell. Marek
