On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:08 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 07:44 -0700, Doug Wellington wrote: > >> > So i can't really understand people (oss users or even oss > >> > developers) who try to defend the position of companies that > >> > make their lives harder for no reason. > >> > >> But it's OK for you to make those companies' lives harder? > > > >It hardly makes their life harder to release specifications for a piece > >of hardware, unless you consider emailing a pdf file to be significantly > >"harder". > > for the hdsp series, RME had *no* written documentation at all except > their existing driver source code. i have come across other h/w > devices where there is no documentation. RME is basically a 2 person > shop on the technical side of things - a h/w guy and a s/w guy who sit > in the same room and go back and forth on "how does this ...", "why > doesn't this ...", "this seems not to ..." etc.
Well then it hardly makes their life harder to divulge said source code either. :) (The duplicating hardware issue aside anyway, which I personally think is bulls***, but that's neither here nor there) -DR-
