Looks like i replied to Alexandre only iso the ML :-S
My 2 cents below :

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From: "thijs van severen" <thijsvanseveren@gmail.com>
Date: 29 Nov 2011 22:22
Subject: Re: [LAU] The pain of Firewire audio hardware
To: "Alexandre Prokoudine" <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com>

in the mean time the numbers have gone up (see http://www.ffado.org/?q=usage/bydevice) but Alexandre is right.

quite often you hear linux users blaming the 'big bad' companies for boycotting linux.

i work for a big company and it's quite simple.  if there is no market the product will not be developed.  it's a simple calculation.

if those companies would be able to make more money by dumping MS and switching to android (or linux in general, but it looks like android is about the only 'linux variant' that is doing things right in terms of marketing, usability etc > boy, am i going to get my ass kicked for writing this! ;-) they would do so.  simple.

no $$, no product.

for a company like focusrite (i just pick focusrite because i own a saffire LE, the same goes for some other companies) donating 1 device is not costing them anything.  

IMHO they are doing this for 2 reasons :  first, there are a couple of people at focurite that are linux lovers and they pull some strings to have focusrite donate some units to the FFADO guys.  Second, focusrite might be curious to see what happens "you never know what the next big market change might be".

But one thing is for sure : they are NOT donating a device because they see it as a market opportunity that will increase sales.

but like i said, this is just MHO

 

2011/11/29 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com>
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