Comment 33 for bug 1020338

@Donny -- the costs I was referring to are the developer purchasing a Reloop Digital Jockey 2 Master Edition and then spending many hours of their time reverse engineering it. Presumably once they have written the driver they will contribute it to the Linux kernel so it will be available to all as FLOSS.

If you'd like you could start a campaign on a site like Pledgie. We have had success doing fundraising for small projects on Pledgie (such as this one: https://pledgie.com/campaigns/13624 ). You could use this to raise money to buy a willing developer a unit and compensate them for their time.