Subject: Re: Behringer [was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more]
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_AT_joe-job.com)
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 23:41:44 EET
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 22:09 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Nvidia has a lot more valuable IP at stake than VIA when they
> > release an open source driver for their 3D gear. If you don't
> > understand why, I can't help you.
>
> I do understand this very well. Because this is the central conflict:
> I will not deal with companies who hide their so called Intellectual
> Property in an area where many free software developers (Jarolav,
> Takashi, Paul, Miller, Linus, Guido, ...) release their so called
> Intellectual Property into a freedom so that it is not *their*
> property anymore but free to use for a whole community.
I think you are confusing the distinction between software and hardware.
I agree that software should be free. The issue here is what the
software reveals about the hardware.
This is the reason Linus allows binary Linux drivers, but not, say, a
binary I/O scheduler.
Lee
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