Re: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Card Support

[Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:37:12PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:12 +0200, Jussi Laako wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 15:16 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > > And I posted a [possibly OT] rant to that thread about how this was a
> > > waste of time and how you could REALLY make a killing with open sound
> > > hardware.
> > 
> > I've been doing hardware design and device driver development as part of
> > my day work. Designing open source hardware is possible in theory, but I
> > can't see who would pay the expenses of the development.
> 
> OK maybe you would not make a killing.  I guess the real question is if
> every LAU buys it, then how much do you need to make on each unit to be
> worthwhile?  
> 
> Compared to doing an open 3D graphics card, it sounds like a pretty good
> deal.  Bigger market, higher margins.

Isn't it better to knock at the door of company xy and say: We're helping in
development a card with you, but everything has to be open. This sounds more
realistic to me than those 100% free solutions which will never ever be
finished;)

BTW, if someone has the skills he can build free audio/midi hardware today:
http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp_usb.html

and somewhere I've also seen a project about a fpga based soundcard, but I
don't remember the details. Perhaps it was on http://www.opencores.org/ or
so...


martin


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