the RME situation

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

So as you may know RME announced there will be no open source drivers
for their firewire products, due to (IMO valid) IP concerns.  They are
certain to get a flood of hatemail from Linux users.

My suggestion was that someone on this list might want to be the voice
of reason and offer to write a closed source ALSA driver, under NDA, for
reasonable compensation of course.  I can't see why they would say no,
unless they are already working on one.

Maybe if they set a precedent that the Linux audio community are not all
RMS worshipping zealots then we would have more supported hardware.  I
think Nvidia proved that Linux users will get behind you if you have
superior hardware and quality drivers, even if they are binary only.

-- 
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>



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