5 Aug
2009
5 Aug
'09
9:19 a.m.
On 5 Aug 2009, at 10:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
victor wrote:
That may well depend on where in the world you're based, it doesn't
seem to be the case in the UK. I'm still in touch with a number of non-
geeky music people here, and they pretty much all use Macs.
- Steve
I note, interestingly, that even though in Linux
circles (at LAC for
instance), people keep mentioning MS Windows as a rival OS,
for us it's really Apple and OSX that constitutes competition these
days from the proprietary side of things.
A lot of professional studios changed from MacOS to Windows and more
and
more of the professional studios still change from MacOS to Windows.
This isn't an opinion by me, but what I hear if I get in contact with
people I know from my jobs I did some years ago. A lot of devices e.g.
measuring instruments changed and still change from Linux to Windows.
I'm unemployed but still know people who still work in those
businesses.
I know, there are some famous examples where companies change to
Linux,
but this isn't the standard.