Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] the radikal SAC-2K
From: Greg Turpin (gregturp_AT_home.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 08:07:28 EEST
Paul,
What really gets to me is this:
If your competitors have to look at your specs to create a product -
your competitors are screwed. They're behind the times. They're playing
catch-up.
Why can't these companies see this? I'm sure this same situation
happens all the time with people wanting to create open-source drivers
for a piece of hardware.
Of course, if they are so afraid that competitors will be able to copy,
then maybe their product is not all that special.
Oh well, so is life, so is Linux.
It's their product, they have every right to release it under their
licenses/permissions.
Sorry for ranting,
Greg
On Monday 11 June 2001 7:38 pm, you wrote:
> Radikal have informed me, and strongly reiterated their position
> after an email exchange, that they will not release the specs for the
> protocol their very nice control surface uses.
>
> I suggested the comparison with MIDI to them (in that MIDI succeeded
> because it Yamaha/Sequential/et al. shared the protocol with the
> world). They responded:
>
> When we publish our protocoll [sic], all the other hardware
> companies can implement our protocoll. This will decrease our
> sales. Then some of our key-features are not any longer unique.
>
> They went on to insist that they need their income.
>
> Obviously, I suggest you avoid Radikal's products. I hope that we will
> soon find a h/w control surface manufacturer who will be more
> cooperative with the free software and/or open source software worlds.
>
> --p
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