On Sunday 19 November 2006 04:39, carmen wrote: > > I think it boils down to vst plugin developers not having > > much interest in linux audio. > > oddly they were into BeOS (steinborg at least) when it had 5 > users, but not Linux when it has what, 3% of the global > desktop market? does anyone have any recent ubuntu Step into a proprietary software maker's shoes for a second and think back to when BeOS appeared to be relevant. BeOS, at the time, was hyped to non-technical people as "the next Mac", and those 5 people who bought Beboxen demonstrated an eagerness to buy high-margin, big-ticket, so-called "professional" software. Linux, successful as it is, is hyped to non-technical people as "the cheap alternative", and those millions of desktop users have demonstrated an eagerness to post on message boards about how overpriced software is and to write their own free knockoffs. I fall into the latter category myself, and in fact, > if im paying $45, id like the source with it thanks :) so do you. But I totally understand why the Steinbergs of the world (not to mention the Adobes, etc.) still target Windows users. It's those three little words that mean so much: "They'll buy ANYTHING." Rob
