However, if you port a novel Linux application to Windows or OS X, the users on those platforms are quite happy to add the free tool to their workflow if it helps them do their work better. This is how the GNU project got its start, after all -- free, usable software that ran on popular commercial UNIX platforms. Sfront has taken this route -- most of my users are non-Linux users now. I think there's a migration path to Linux that could be based on this strategy -- if the free software community comes up with a set of audio content-creation tools that Windows or OS X users are willing to use as a complete workflow, the case for switching over to Linux to run the workflow more efficiently (or to avoid OS license upgrade fees, etc) is easier to make. Certainly on the CLI side, many people started out at Cygwin users to run emacs and gcc and TeX under Windows, and then decided to add a dual-boot option for Linux to get "the real thing." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro -------------------------------------------------------------------------