>Oh sure they can, as it was the case with iriver. >2 years ago their forums were full of hatefilled msgs just because >people demanded ogg vorbis and were ignored.(or at least it seemed so, >no response from iriver).
there's no proof that it was hate-filled messages that convinced iriver of anything. there were plenty of behind-the-scenes and on-list messages that were not full of invective. >> all we can say is that they >> have a different perspective on the world than we do. > >Paul, honestly. I can't explain why they haven't even *tried* to install >linux with jack and ardour. If i were them i'd at *least* track the You have inadequate knowledge of the history here Marek. RME were actually very keen on demoing Ardour 4 years ago! They wanted to show it at trade shows. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure why they might be less inclined to spend time on it these days. >can't do otherwise ;) And in such case, they'd probably deliver an alsa >driver for fireface, fireface2, whatever themselves pretty quickly. >And i'd be also interested in how many units were sold due to alsa.If i >were them. If i were them i'd want every customer no matter what. You continue to ignore the perfectly understandable (not necessarily correct, but understandable) concern that "every customer no matter what" doesn't deal with the fact that an open source driver might, for the fireface, make copycat technology (from behringer or wherever) so much easier to implement that there would be a net loss of customers. Yes, they can't prove that it will, and you can't prove that it won't. So there's nothing more to say there. >There's them, companies striving for higher revenues. There's us, paying >customers. Paying customers who will gladly pay less for the same technology. So if a company takes steps that lead to other company's being able to offer the same for less, they might regret those steps. Its never as simple as black+white, yes+no, true+false. Oh, and for the record, I purchased my own digi9652, was given an updated digi9652, along with an hdsp PCI card and digiface, and i later purchased my own pcmcia interface. I also get dealer pricing on RME equipment. --p
