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On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 23:21, Lee Revell wrote:

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> On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 16:22 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:

> > 	Man, I've been waiting all day for someone to say this.  Personally,

> > open source is not a religion for me so a closed source driver would be

> > fine and dandy.  Let the flames commence - now where did I put my

> > asbestos underwear?

>

> Eh, it's a slow day, I'm bored.  But I mean it 100%.  Flame away...

>

> So, the next question is, what would it take to make a closed source

> driver happen?  They should start the bidding on alsa-devel at "one free

> FireFace"...

Lee and Jan,
i talk to you as an owner of fireface. :)
I really like the philosophy of not letting any closed source drivers

into the kernel. In the end i only saw people upset because their XY

nvidia or ATI driver wasn't working. Besides they'd need to provide it

themselves, which means a lot more money than just handing out

documentation or perhaps one free unit.
My point of view - either open source alsa driver, or i'll just sell

that unit. And now that they have accused me of causing damage to RME

specifically because of this thread, i can only say, i'll stay away from

any of their products. Speaking of damage, i'd like to see a slashdot

story about this so that 30.000 people can judge for themselves. :) 
The best bet would be to find a adat/smux card manufacturer which is

able to release specs and keep the rest as far away from your pc as

possible. :)
Marek