On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:01 +0100, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: > Open source and freedom of IP for me are moral choices. > I have no problem with anybody who tries to live or behave > according to his beliefs. I *do* have a problem with those > who want to impose their standards onto others that do not > share the same beliefs. So I will not try to impose my > choices onto others.
The world would be a pretty awful (well, even more awful) place if noone ever expressed distaste with someone's actions. And anyway, it's not like we're trying to force a religion on them or something. Open drivers being better is not a "belief", it is a fact (religious determination of some free software advocates aside). 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. We would like to be able to use RME's hardware to it's full extent. Is there really anything wrong with sending some polite emails pointing out the problems and requesting a more open strategy? -DR-
