Re: Behringer [was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more]

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Subject: Re: Behringer [was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more]
From: Marek Peteraj (marpet_AT_naex.sk)
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 21:44:16 EET


> Why? Because with the availability of closed drivers the (market)
> demand for open source drivers suddenly becomes as small as the
> handful of Libre Software supporters like I am one. The "just make my
> hardware work" type of Linux users is not interested in Open Source
> drivers anymore, so why should someone still write this kind of
> drivers? NVidia is the prime example. They provide closed source
> drivers, a lot of (probably most) users are happy about this, NVidia
> makes millions of dollars also in the Linux market. No free software
> drivers? Bah, who the heck cares? And who the heck cares, that you
> cannot buy a single modern 3D-card anymore, which has open source
> drivers, by any manufacturer? Oh, that's not the fault of the linux
> community, Matrox simply sucks, they don't provide binary only

Gone are the beautiful days, closed already (their 650, 750 and parhelia
series - binary only)

Oh BTW, just in case :)

http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html

>
> If RME doesn't want to support Linux for their FW card, that's fine
> with me. There are still enough alternatives.

We're risking a case where the alternatives would soon be redundant
technically or discontinued. And firewire is "der letzte schrei", almost
every manufacturer has got or prepares his own firewire product.

Marek


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