El Domingo, 25 de Junio de 2006 10:36, Jorge Salgueiro escribió:
yo no la necesito pero es un muy buen trabajo marcos! Ahora todos a escribir a m-audio pediendo firmware libre!!!
Exactamente, sería interesante que reclamáramos masivamente este firmware pero que sea GPL. Solicitamos su colaboración! mails a: [email protected] Modelo del mail a tomar como referencia (cambiarlo y ajustarlo a sus particularidades!): Dear M-audio Management, I'm a Midisport 4x4 owner and I'm trying to get it working on a linux Live CD named MUSIX (A complete OS + all the software to make music that can run from CD instead of a Harddisk) http://www.musix.org.ar/ The Musix distro is based on GNU GPL and thus it impossible for them to include the midisport 4x4 firmware on their CD. Now, since i bought a midisport 4x4 i find it a bit strange that i cant use a perfectly fine tool because of a simple issue like this. I now own the hardware, but may not use it because of a licence issue. Is there a way to make the firmware available, and open a bigger market for your products, by making it possible to distribute it? Or eventually make it possible for the linux users to build their own firmware? I'm very disappointed that I'm not able to use the product that i now OWN. (i paid a lot of money for it) I know it is possible to get the interface working under linux when the drivers and firmware are installed and configured on a harddisk. But in case of a live CD distro then the current licence forbids it to distribute the firmware. A live CD distro makes it possible to travel with a CD and some basic gear (like a midisport) and work on any PC available at the time as long as it has a CD drive, USB, and CPU with sufficient power to run the software. ...Less gear to carry around. And on top of all this, what is the problem with distributing firmware files in this case? The firmware is only usable on the hardware, and thus those people need to be your customers after all. Please give it some thought. I'll be glad to help and find the right people to get this working. Kind Regards, -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * Descarga el CD de Musix: (www.musix.org.ar) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode