29 Nov
2004
29 Nov
'04
9:42 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 00:55 +0100, Marek Peteraj wrote:
Bottom line, these companies are not stupid. They know where the money
is, and it ain't on LAU. If it were, they'd be here too.
-ry
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Ryan Gallagher <ruinaudio(a)comcast.net>
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:14, Ryan Gallagher wrote:
Linux users are still a minority and linux audio users
Come on... reality check. The mail lists for
Avid->DigiDesign->Pro-Tools alone dwarf LAU.
The linux-audio market isn't a fly-fart in sulfur mine to these 2nd tier
companies (m-audio et. al.). They're competing for crumbs from the
giant's (digidesign) lap anyway.
an even smaller one, downright miniscule. We
should try to stay "real"
in estimating our tiny presence in this huge industry.
Ok let's get this straight. ;)
(why do we always underestimate ourselves) Suppose that each city and perhaps a fairly large town
in the US and
Europe has got at least *one* linux audio user.
Likely? I think so :)
How much users would that be? Hundreds? More?
Hundreds. And the money we (LAU's) spend on audio gear in a year per
company wouldn't pay the salary of the person who pushes "send" on the
"we don't plan support" emails for a month.
Now let's look at the "tiny" linux audio
market. Ask everyone what unit
he has got. I bet it's going to be 2/3rd RME 1/3 Maudio.
I'd venture to guess that if EVERY LAU signed a petition to support only
one company in return for drivers/support... it'd mean nothing. To be
honest, I'm grateful for any "support" official or otherwise we get.
IMO it's a cheritible act for these profit driven (not meant in a
negative way) manufacturers to spend/risk revenue on what is still
largely a hobby OS (speaking of linux desktop/audio here only).
1) second the
validity of your statements regarding OS representation
(LAU is a pretty insular community, sometimes it feels bigger than it
is)
Sadly it's exactly the opposite.