Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer
From: Marek Peteraj (marpet_AT_naex.sk)
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 23:00:17 EET
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 19:15, Doug Wellington wrote:
> Previously:
> > All this mentioning of "belief" and "church" to degrade open source
> > people is no better than me calling you and RME Nazis. Seems to be a
> > recurring theme that the person who presents the open source position
> > makes no personal attacks whatsoever, and someone who is okay with
> > proprietary drivers responds with personal attacks (both suggestively by
> > you to Marek and directly by Jan to myself). Let's throw the name
> > calling aside please. Anyway...
> >
> > There are very valid technical reasons why a closed piece of hardware is
> > a POS from a Linux user's perspective.
>
> [Heehee... Anyone else see the irony in this?]
>
> So, it's ok for you to imply (in a previous email to Marek) that RME is
> fascist and (in this email) that their hardware is a POS, but if anyone
> else says anything defending them, that's a personal attack?
I think Dave was trying to point out something different.
Besides, it's not a personal attack with regards to RME, simply because
RME is a legal entity. :)
> There are a lot of things that I'd like to be able to do that I can't.
> [SHRUG] There are always other options. Why limit yourself?
Could you give me one option for 10 analog i/os of 24/192, firewire?
I'm a linux user. :)
Marek
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