--- Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: > > >Mark Knecht: > > > > > >>BTW - I truly think that in the next 12-24 months > Digi will release > > > >What digidesign should do, is to make their own > specialized distribution > >of linux to run protools with, and set up a list of > recommended hardware. > >Then they would solve various hardware- and > software-issues running > >protools on a PC, and they would automatically give > back a lot > >to the linux-community thru work on the protools > linux distribution and > >getting a bounchelibounch of new audio linux users. I'm not sure giving back is so automatic. Has Yamaha music given anything back? I own two Yamaha 4416 HDR units that run Linux but haven't noticed any contributions to Linux that are credited to Yamaha. To be fair, I wouldn't know if they have or haven't. I've never looked at a website to see if Yamaha even says anything about Linux on these units. I assume these are Linux machines because Tux pops up during the boot and I was told by someone that knows the Yamaha developers that the 4416 runs Linux. Wasn't there an announcement a year ago about Yamaha investing five millionish U.S. dollars into embedded linux? Maybe I just answered my own question. :) ron > That's what I would do -- have to do -- if the > decision was to offer a > product based on linux. But, again, they would have > to plan out a > strategy of how this product would be > created/marketed/delivered/supported/etc in the > marketplace. As it is, > they don't support an OS today, they just use two > that someone else > creates/markets/supports/etc. The OS maker has the > enormous cost burden. > This could be a significant burden that they > otherwise just don't need > at the moment. > > On the flip-side, if they look at their overall > costs, it might just > prove cheaper if they roll-their-own exclusively. > Today, they may spend > a bunch on adapting their products to each new > release of an OS (well, > we know by history that they don't adapt too > quickly.) They are > dependent on others (MS and Apple) and maybe that, > when you look at it > holistically (what new features or product releases > have the missed > because of this external dependency? -- thus lost > dollars), costs them > more than adapting their own OS. > > brad > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com
