From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langer Subject: Re: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Card Support Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:26:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20041119202648.GA2284@tuba.home> References: <31148074.1100630541337.JavaMail.root@scooter.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <419C9D47.4090606@x-i.net> <200411181515.52218.olaf@solutionworks.de> <20041118143205.GA21282@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <419CB554.3080709@esitcom.org> <1100809010.10150.5.camel@krustophenia.net> <1100884361.13133.10.camel@vaarlahti.uworld> <1100889432.11973.15.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1100889432.11973.15.camel@krustophenia.net> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Lee Revell Cc: A list for linux audio users , The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List , Amaury Jacquot , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Giuliano Pochini , Steve Harris List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8