[LAU] [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
> wrote:

>
> For example people who use firefox or chrome would be a good start. They
> are most likely the ones who will also be using Linux Audio Tools.
>

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 ardour.org:

Rank Requests Pages OS
1       1064670 50842   Windows
2       1008038  23804   Unix
         1001554  23713   Linux
         5482               77  BSD
         696                 10  Other Unix
         306                   4  SunOS
3       3106311     5647  OS unknown
4       476795    14399   Macintosh
5       51448         8052  Known robots
6       14                   14  OS/2
7       1862               11   Symbian OS

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.

Another example, Behringer ships Audacity with every single product they
> sell. Clearly the global market leader for audio production hardware sees
> some value in open source too.


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.
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