<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Patrick Shirkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pshirkey@boosthardware.com" target="_blank">pshirkey@boosthardware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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For example people who use firefox or chrome would be a good start. They<br>
are most likely the ones who will also be using Linux Audio Tools.<br></blockquote><div><br>patrick, if you haven't noted, firefox and chrome are cross-platform tools. perhaps you mean the number of people who use those tools on linux ... if so, here are some numbers from <a href="http://ardour.org">ardour.org</a>:<br>
<br>Rank Requests Pages OS<br>1 1064670 50842 Windows
<br>2 1008038 23804 Unix
<br> 1001554 23713 Linux
<br> 5482 77 BSD
<br> 696 10 Other Unix
<br> 306 4 SunOS
<br>3 3106311 5647 OS unknown
<br>4 476795 14399 Macintosh
<br>5 51448 8052 Known robots
<br>6 14 14 OS/2
<br>7 1862 11 Symbian OS<br> <br>if you were to use this, you'd note that even on a site about a DAW that doesn't run on Windows, (apparent) Windows users outnumber Linux users by more than 2:1. of course, this statistic has all kinds of flaws and caveats, but the point is that the data that is available to companies such as NI strongly argues against supporting Linux. if you have real data that would convince such companies that their existing decisions are wrong, then please do share it.<br>
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Another example, Behringer ships Audacity with every single product they<br>
sell. Clearly the global market leader for audio production hardware sees<br>
some value in open source too.</blockquote><div><br>for the N-th time, open source is *not* Linux. Audacity is popular because it is a powerful, useful, cross-platform tool. Linux has (probably) very little to do with it.<br>
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