If hardware manufactures wanted their products to have good support on Linux, all they have to do is publish the hardware programming details, and the linux community will do the actual driver development. I still don't understand what manufactures are protecting by not releasing the programming details needed for 3rd parties to develope their own drivers.
All chip only manufactures publish the details. I don't have any Philips hardware, but there is a principal here. Cheers James > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Davis > Sent: 12 October 2001 12:59 > To: J rn Nettingsmeier > Cc: Michael Staggs; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Philips Acoustic Edge > > > >it's been the same with MOTU, some vendors are just ignorant of a > >large potential customer base. > > lets not kid ourselves. there is a *tiny* potential customer base for > the next several years at least, and the existing customer base is > even smaller. > > the customer base for audio chipsets in things like laptops and > off-the-shelf desktops is quite a bit larger, but anything that's > actually a serious audio interface has a linux customer base that can > probably be counted in the low hundreds, if that. > > or so it seems to me. even if i'm wrong, i suspect that even the most > optimistic vision of the customer base doesn't justify the investment > these kind of inertia-bound companies think they have to make to get > into Linux. > > --p > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
