Regarding the messages that audio/media is not a priority for Fedora/Redhat.... it should be: Redhat could be doing a lot more, both for itself and its sales, by seeding the music&media-communictions-education market -- in public schools -- with far-lower-cost platforms than they're currently purchasing, such as the macintosh with whatever expensive music software that was recently stolen from my son's school. Because if you go in the library, there's macs for the students to work on and the staff is often using them too. Which means when they grow up, at best there will be macs replacing the windows boxen in the workplace. Redhat could be seeding the part of the market where software costs and updates are outrageous: "pro" or "creative" multimedia and audio, and where concept-training is important, and not mastery of particular tools like ProTools or Maya or Avid ... as you might find in a trade-school. Getting multiyear education-based computer contracts is great-bread and butter for the long-term survival of a computer company. and redhat could be getting its foot in the door of such "mac&ms-office shops" by seeding the music/film/broadcast and multimedia education/training parts of the school curriculum with a nice "media&education spin" which would include realtime options for those doing movie or film projects. And since Linux is so efficient -- a lot of this could be platformed on last-generation hardware that is refurbished/compatibility-selected and distributed to schools. But who knows, maybe the issue is that Redhat is doing too well :-) http://www.marketintellisearch.com/articles/1027501.html While Nokia seems to be pushing hard these days with http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/story/app/kde Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
