On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 20:36, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:58:57 +0100, Marek Peteraj <marpet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 19:28, Chris Metzler wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:48:05 +0100 > > > Marek Peteraj <marpet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > If MacOSX can have them, so can we, we have a greater marketshare. > > > > > > Among pro-audio users? Can you show me the source for this claim? > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > I meant overall marketshare. > <SNIP> > >I believe that the number of > > pro audio hw customers that are also linux user lies somewhere between > > 500-1000. It's a rough guess and it would be interesting to know more > > precisely... > <SNIP> > > Not fine grained enough... > > 1) # of Pro Audio users depending on Ardour for day to day recording. > 0 or 1? (Ron - speak up!) ;-) No not really. At least 6-7 people showed up on ardour mailinglists. It's possible to look it up but would eat a lot of time. > > 2) # of Pro Audio users using Linux soft synths? > > 3) # of Pro Audio users using Linux as a command line tool for > pre/post-processing of wave files? Not really relevant. The only thing that relevant here is how many linux audio users are customers of pro audio vendors no matter what usage. Marek