[linux-audio-user] RE: Interview with EnergyXT Developer

Well, for them to have interest, there has to be a viable market, and currently there isn't--we are too small and too involved in the free as in free speech concepts (please do not get me wrong, I am totally for this kind of an approach, I am simply trying to depict the reasoning behind this apparent lack of interest). Hence, the only way they will ever consider our market is if we find someone who is: 1) sympathetic 2) willing to invest *little* time to recompile their work for Linux Our job is that *little* is as little as possible. Utopian case scenario would be that a developer could simply take its source, link it against the LPGL-ed VSTGUI library, recompile, and be done with it. Then, we would stand a chance. But this would not be the end of it. Even if we get this far, chances are what we would get would be commercial natively-compiled plugins and the next step would be for us to prove that our community has enough of market potential to make such endeavors worthwhile (namely by purchasing their product). This, as Linux gaming market has already taught us, is a lot tougher to happen, however... Best wishes, Ico