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Subject: RME DIGI 32, DIGI32/8, DIGI 96, DIGI 96/8 Hardwareinfo denied.
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Winfried Ritsch writes:
 > 
 > I want to inform ALSA Developer about my survey to get RME DIGI 32,
 > DIGI32/8, DIGI 96, DIGI 96/8 Hardwareinfo.
 > 
 > (DIGI 32/8 is the older, DIGI 96/8 is the newer Produkt:
 > PCI 1 SPDIF - AES/EBU or 1 ADAT I/O about U$ 500, http://www.rme-audio.com/)
 > 
 > After my question for Hardwareinfo for programming ALSA low level
 > driver, they denied:
 > 
 > - they do only NDAs, and they did with 4Front
 > 
 > (the OSS driver was announced 1 year ago, but do not work in 8 channel
 > mode even it was announced for sept.98 and now 4front told me they
 > would not make a 8 channel driver for DIGI32/8, but there will be one
 > likely for DIGI 96/8 in summer, and the main reason
 > for me, the DEC-Alpha Linux driver did not work even it cost
 > US$20.-+US$80.-) and I dont think the 8.-channel driver for DEC Alpha
 > will work if the 2-channel did not work.

Am I the only one who thinks that OSS is not just annoying any more but
starts to be a real threath to the free software movement?

