> > > > Not the ALSA driver, just the specs. To me. > > And why would anyone do this? What do they gain? 1 (potentially) happy > customer? http://eca.cx/lau/2004/11/0814.html http://eca.cx/lau/2004/11/0901.html http://eca.cx/lau/2004/11/0885.html http://eca.cx/lau/2004/11/0919.html > And a risk that you'll give the info away and whatever their > secret is will be out of the bag. Their secret is 0.3ms away from the secrets of others. And those 0.3 ms can't even be guaranteed. > > There's no value for them in doing this. If they don't want the > ingredients for their secret sauce known by other burger makers then > you cannot release the driver as Open Source, can you? I think there's a difference between an ALSA driver and detailed documentation. Anyway, it's possible to rip someone's IP off no matter how well protected it is. I think it's been proved numberous times throughout the history of digital era. > It only helps > you and not the community at large. Seems like. OTOH everyone's talking about FW. So it doesn't seem like. ;) > > > > But let's look at it from the card manufacturers perspective. He wasn't > > involved in the community for several years, doesn't know its evolution, > > nuances etc. He takes a look here, sees a few people saying "we're just > > 10 people here, guys let's give up anyway, it's not worth it". > > Consequences are worse because there's little action going on. > > Perhaps i'd be nice to start a petition of all rme and maudio users. But > > we'd need to widely promote such activity so that we can reach almost > > every rme or maudio / linux audiop user in the world. > > Go for it. I'll sign up, depending on what the petition actually says. > I won't take part in threatening RME or any other company. No threatening. Just what i was talking about all the time. A linux audio market research. > > Never if it comes to corporations. > > They either: > > 1. ignore you if their position is strong enough(sometimes even if they > > have no such position, but there are successful and unsuccessful > > companies) > > 2. accept your requirements > > Wow! It appears that there are very few options in your world. Name more. > > > > > > > is just > > > > boosting their egos so that they can show you their finger next time you > > > > need something. It happens always. > > > To you? always? Hmm. > > > > I'd be glad to learn it's the opposite. A few exceptions just prove that > > rule. > > We can work together to find them I think... Give one or two concrete examples. Marek
