Oh i believe it was for stability and reliability issues.

In the past years we had "sound blackouts" on several occasions because of technical failures
so there was a decision to go as failure proof as possible.

I believe that the non Microsoft policy was actually induced by the head of AV department...

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:

On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:15:38PM +0300, Moshe Werner wrote:

> Actually I've got a fun fact.
> When last year the Israeli parliament published the official requirements
> for the new FOH system in the plenum, it stated that no Microsoft driven
> console would be allowed:)

What is the (political, ethical, pragmatic, ...) motivation behind this choice ?

I could have added security, but since plenum sessions are
(I assume) public that seems to be irrelevant.

Ciao,

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