[FFADO-devel] reverse engineering is evil...

[Joern N. <net...@fo...>]

hi guys!


despite the pointed subject, i don't intend to start a flame war...

i've read about recent efforts to reverse-engineer the motu traveller
and rme fireface.
both are great pieces of hardware, and both manufactures have always
been (motu), or recently turned to (rme), major pains in the ass for the
free software culture.

now of course everybody is perfectly entitled to attempt to
reverse-engineer their own hardware, and it's a cool thing to be able to
do, but there are a few things to consider:

* do you really want to donate your developer time to uncooperative
manufacturers?
* do you want to open a new market to vendors that don't play along?
* do you want to waste time with wire-level signal analysis when you
could just as well put your interface on ebay and get a supported one?

i would love to be able to use all those currently unsupportable
interfaces, but as things stand now, i will put my money where my
beliefs are and only support vendors with an open, cooperative attitude.

regards,

jörn



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