Shucks. I was afraid of that. I'll bug them some more, and if I get really
ambitious (I know nothing about it), perhaps try and reverse engineer
something. Is this technically possible?
On another note, are there multitrack sound cards out there that DO have
open source drivers?
-Josiah
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
> i wrote to lexicon when they released the core2. they demonstrated
> extreme antipathy to linux in general and to open source drivers in
> particular. they seem to believe, as do many companies, that their
> basically off-the-shelf hardware contains some important intellectual
> property that an open source device driver would reveal.
>
> i suggest you do yourself a favor, and even under windows or macos,
> restrict yourself to companies who understand that their audio h/w
> contains no secrets that a competitor could not divine (with or
> without open source drivers), and that open source drivers offer
> chances for improvements and sometimes even inspiration that
> ultimately benefit them and their customers.
>
> --p
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