On Saturday 18 October 2014 11:19:33 Johannes Kroll did opine And Gene did reply: > Hello all! > > Keith McMillen has marketed their QuNeo controller as "Open Source" on > Kickstarter and other places (google "quneo open source"), while > actually it is not "open source" for any reasonable definition of the > term. Editor software source code, which is crucial for using the > device with Linux, has only reluctantly been released to a closed group > of beta testers. People are understandably disappointed. > > What do you think? Call their bluff, that is not how it is supposed to work. > > The following is from Keith McMillen forum: > http://forum.keithmcmillen.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=651&start=140#p9641 > > > Currently, the Linux version of the editor crashes when I try to > > update presets. Of course, the source code for the editor still isn't > > released and there is no officially supported Linux version, so I > > don't expect this to be fixed any time soon. As I don't use or have > > Windows, this turns my QuNeo pretty much into a pretty expensive > > plastic brick. I can't even use it as a doorstop because it is so > > thin. > > > > Keith McMillen have lied about the QuNeo being open source on > > Kickstarter right from the start, and used the "open source" tag for > > marketing. Yet no part of the product is open source: Not the > > schematics; not the firmware; not the editor. Apparently there was to > > be an SDK for the QuNeo which hasn't materialized yet, either. > > > > I believed the marketing and paid for an open source product; > > something I could hack and modify. I did not get what I paid for. The > > QuNeo is a closed-source brick, just like lots and lots of other > > controllers on the market. > > > > This has been discussed for months (years?) now, with no result. It > > seems obvious that Keith McMillen never intended to fulfill their > > "open source" promise from the start. > > > > I am advising my musician friends not to buy from Keith McMillen. It > > is likely they will get scammed. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
