[LAU] The democratization on music might not always be a good thing...

[Renato]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:51:03 -0400
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > The bigger question is how can Native Instruments be based in
> > Germany, and not support linux?
> 
> I could answer that but I'm not going to. I've met with them a couple
> of times. The very quick summary is that (a) they don't believe there
> is much of a market (b) supporting Linux as a generic entity with
> commercial software is way, way too much work (as I can attest with
> some attempts at this with Ardour). There's not much point in arguing
> either of these items because their assessment of things is not likely
> to change any time soon.
> 
> They do support JACK on OS X, which is at least a nod in the right
> direction. 

and also they provide alsa drivers for their hardware

renato