On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:15 -0700, Doug Wellington wrote: > Previously: > > 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. > > [Heehee... Anyone else see the irony in this?] > > So, it's ok for you to imply (in a previous email to Marek) that RME is > fascist and (in this email) that their hardware is a POS, but if anyone > else says anything defending them, that's a personal attack?
I'm not even going to justify that with a response - you're putting so many words into my mouth it's ridiculous. If anyone says anything defending RME, I said it's a personal attack (again myself)? Are you serious? Anyway, read the email you're replying to again, note it's purpose, and decide if replying as you did was really a good idea. Enough. Please. > > We would like to be able to use RME's hardware to it's full extent. > > There are a lot of things that I'd like to be able to do that I can't. > [SHRUG] There are always other options. Why limit yourself? What is my other option for an 'open source friendly' firewire interface with the capabilities of the fireface exactly? I sure would love to know (seriously). If there was an equally capable open alternative I'd be the first to go buy it and send RME an email telling them why I did so. Done it before, and I'll do it again. The question is not "why limit yourself". I am not limiting myself. RME is limiting me. (In a way. Don't go there) -DR-
