[Consortium] demographics

Hi, I'm thinking the consortium could provide some simple demographics that provide an indication of the number of Linux audio users. Maybe start with a simple page and a link to Joern's mailing list subscription count. It's easy to imagine the content would become more useful with time and not to much effort. Maybe we could ask Demudi, Planet CCRMA, etc for download stats. Http stats for hits might also be interesting. The point being, if the cost for company X to port their products to Linux is $15,000.00 U.S. they will require a consumer market of X users to justify the investment. During the last month, I've had conversations with several companies that have product for Mac OSX. They had two basic concerns. 1. "Linux has to small a share of the market to justify an investment."[1] 2. "we're waiting for a DAW/Sequencer like X and then we'll port." It's not difficult to imagine that Linux owns a small share of market but I think it could be interesting to know where we stand and to make that information available to the public. NOTES 1. Of course anyone can contract a company to port and then license their product. Ron __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/