Hallo, Erik de Castro Lopo hat gesagt: // Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:38:32 -0000 (UCT) > "Dubphil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Recently I have succeeded in convicing a Manufacturer (Wave Idea) to > > consider the importance of giving Linux support to his products. I was > > really convince myself that this initiative will be encouraged by the > > Linux Audio community. That's why I have posted an help request to make > > Wave Idea products fully Linux compliant. > > The problem is that the device you wrote about was a MIDI interface and > the LA community seems much more interested in digital audio than it is > in MIDI. I'm sure if your device was a high end, reasonably priced > multi-channel digital audio interface you would have been overwhelmed > with responses.
I don't think, that this is the reason. There are several other reasons, the most important one is: The announcement asking for help was just some days ago, and generally no new project starts in just a couple of days, especially not at that time of the year. Getting developers to join a project is one of the hardest things to do in the Free Software world and it takes a lot of time. Just think about Ardour: For a long time this was mainly the project of Paul alone, IIRC. He pushed things forward and over the *years* has found a good amount of co-developers. And Ardour is of interest to many more people than a configuration tool for a piece of hardware, that not many people own or will buy, because - let's face it - it's expensive. I'm currently struggling with getting support for a strange kind of webcam into Pd, and as I'm currently the only one using such a beast, I'm on my own for now. That's the way it is, patience is a virtue, time is limited etc. etc. I don't blame anyone, and in my experience there will always come support for something sooner or later. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__