Would I buy Finale or Sonar if they'd really play under Linux? I bought a lot of advanced MIDI software for Windows as well as Sonar's not-so-little sister Home Studio. Some stuff I got in exchange for beta testing or consulting with the authors. No plans for Linux ports and I USE this stuff. Maybe some of us would be Linux ports of premier applications. However, the Linux world is sold on Open-Source. Most Linux geeks will never purchase anything. Example, myself--I was considering buying the very reasonably priced Lindows (now Linspire--wait for the real Microsoft Lindows :-)). Then I saw and article about Knoppix. Did the job at an evern more reasonable cost. Gnu? If I can "make do" with notedit, probably would not shell out the dought for Finale. Forget about Sibelius ... and ... there are very reasonably priced package around in Windows if one can go with their qwerks and more and more freebies as well. So I do not expect Coda or Cakewalk or Steinberg to get into the Linux market anytime soon.
